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Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower


00:02:42 1 Election of 1952
00:02:52 1.1 Republican nomination
00:07:35 1.2 General election
00:11:44 2 Administration
00:11:53 2.1 Cabinet
00:15:31 2.2 Vice-presidency
00:16:31 2.3 Press corps
00:17:34 2.4 Continuity of government
00:19:22 3 Judicial appointments
00:21:33 4 Foreign affairs
00:21:42 4.1 Cold War
00:25:07 4.1.1 New Look policy
00:27:40 4.2 End of the Korean War
00:29:10 4.3 Covert actions
00:31:43 4.4 Proposed Bricker Amendment
00:33:15 4.5 Europe
00:36:01 4.6 East Asia and Southeast Asia
00:38:36 4.7 Middle East
00:39:28 4.7.1 Suez crisis
00:41:46 4.7.2 Eisenhower Doctrine
00:43:38 4.8 South Asia
00:44:43 4.9 Latin America
00:46:20 4.10 Ballistic missiles and arms control
00:48:37 4.11 U-2 Crisis
00:51:05 4.12 International trips
00:51:54 5 Domestic affairs
00:52:04 5.1 Modern Republicanism
00:54:48 5.2 Fiscal policy and the economy
00:57:28 5.3 Immigration
00:59:15 5.4 Second Red Scare
01:02:02 5.5 Civil rights
01:02:11 5.5.1 First term
01:05:42 5.5.2 Second term
01:08:32 5.6 Interstate highway system
01:11:27 5.7 Space program and education
01:15:19 5.8 Labor unions
01:17:15 5.9 Mid-term elections of 1958
01:18:54 5.10 Twenty-third Amendment
01:19:59 5.11 States admitted to the Union
01:21:00 6 Health issues
01:22:18 7 Presidential elections
01:22:27 7.1 1956 re-election
01:26:36 7.2 1960 election and transition
01:29:52 8 Historical reputation



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The presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower began on January 20, 1953, when he was inaugurated as the 34th President of the United States, and ended on January 20, 1961. Eisenhower, a Republican, took office as president following a landslide win over Democrat Adlai Stevenson in the 1952 presidential election. This victory upended the New Deal Coalition that had kept the presidency in the hands of the Democratic Party for 20 years. Four years later, in the 1956 presidential election, he defeated Stevenson in a landslide again, winning a second term in office. He was succeeded in office by Democrat John F. Kennedy after the 1960 election.
Eisenhower called for progressive conservativism. That implied that traditional American values included change and progress.  Jean Smith says, "He looked to the future, not the past, and his presidency provided a buffered transition from FDR's New Deal and the Fair Deal of Harry Truman into the modern era."  Eisenhower was able to secure several victories in Congress, even though Democrats held the majority in both the House and the Senate during all but the first two years of his presidency. Eisenhower continued New Deal programs and expanded Social Security. He took the lead in building the Interstate Highway System in 1956, and the establishment of NASA, with a distinctly civilian (rather than military) mandate. In the Suez Crisis of 1956, Eisenhower  used American financial power to force Britain and France to end their occupation of the Suez Canal. Eisenhower signed the first significant civil rights bills of the 20th century, and he sent federal troops to Arkansas to enforce a court ruling mandating school desegregation.
Six months into his first term, the U.S. agreed to an armistice that ended the Korean War. Yet even though at peace, defense spending remained high, as the administration made vigorous efforts to contain the Soviet Union during the Cold War. He authorized covert Central Intelligence Agency actions to overthrow unfriendly governments or protect reliable anti-Communist ones, and he implemented a national security policy that relied on strategic nuclear weapons to deter potential threats, both conventional and nuclear, from Warsaw Pact nations.
Eisenhower was the first U.S. president to be constitutionally limited to two terms under the 22nd Amendment. Voted Gallup's most admired man twelve times, he achieved widespread popular esteem both in and out of office. Since the late 20th century, consensus among Western scholars has cons ...