OM was an American army general and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. His mother originally named him David Dwight but reversed the two names after his birth to avoid the confusion of having two Davids in the family. All of the boys were called 'Ike', such as 'Big Ike' (Edgar) and 'Little Ike' (Dwight); the nickname was intended as an abbreviation of their last name. In 1892, the family moved to Abilene, Kansas, which Eisenhower considered his hometown.
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