what did eisenhower do before he was president
After the war, Eisenhower served as U.S. Army Chief of Staff. In 1948, he retired from the army, later becoming president of Columbia University, and then head of NATO in 1950. President of the United States. Eisenhower was a popular president throughout his two terms in office.With a campaign slogan that couldn't miss, I like Ike, Eisenhower and his vice president, Richard M. Nixon, posted landslide victories in both 1952 and 1956.hroughout and beyond his term as president, Eisenhower followed his mother's heart and concentrated on maintaining world peace. He watched in delight the development of his  atoms for peace  program loans of American uranium to have-not nations for peaceful purposes.