Dwight David Eisenhower's Presidency

Dwight David Eisenhower said, “...what counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight--it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” There is a great deal of controversy about Eisenhower’s presidency. In this paper you will learn where Eisenhower was born, and where he died. You will learn the results of; the electoral college votes and popular votes, the political party he was affiliated with, his opponents, and his vice presidents for both of his terms in office. You will read about the platform he ran on when he was running for office as well as a famous quote that he said. You will read about his foreign policy, domestic policy, and economic policy. Dwight David Eisenhower was born in Denison, Texas on October 14, 1980 (Funk

Dwight received 442 electoral college votes compared to Stevenson’s 89 votes. The popular vote ended with Eisenhower receiving 33,936,137 votes and Stevenson receiving 27,314,649 votes (Funk & Wagnalls). Dwight Eisenhower won by a landslide and became the 34th president of the United States of America. After his first term, Eisenhower ran for reelection. This time he was even more successful running against Adlai Stevenson than the first time. In the electoral college vote, Eisenhower received 457 votes and Stevenson received 73 votes. Eisenhower ended up with 15 more electoral college votes than he had in his first run for presidency. The popular vote resulted in Eisenhower receiving 35,585,245 votes and Stevenson receiving 26,030,172 votes (Funk & Wagnalls). Eisenhower received 1,649,108 more votes during his second election compared to the votes from his first election. During both terms, Richard Nixon served as Dwight Eisenhower’s Vice President (Nichols). As president, Eisenhower worked to make peace and prevent war. Throughout both of his presidencies he was very successful and was well loved by many. Eisenhower was well liked for his ideas on foreign

Due to his experience, he took interest in military and diplomatic affairs. Eisenhower supported the National Security Council and worked to make it thrive. He used the National Security Council to execute policy on international security affairs. He ended the war in Korea in 1953 and reduced the strength of the conventional forces. Eisenhower put an emphasis on nuclear weapons, even though many army leaders disagreed (Funk & Wagnalls). “The cold war rhetoric sometimes grew hot, but for eight years Eisenhower kept the country at peace…” (Parshall). Dwight preferred to use the nuclear weapons as a strategy of massive retaliation opposed to a solution directly related to the situation. “Despite temporary thaws, the cold war with the Soviet Union continued throughout his presidency.” (Funk & Wagnalls). Even though Eisenhower was able to end the war in Korea, he wasn’t able to find a way to end the cold war during his 8 years in office. Dwight was anti-communist and supported his secretary of state, John Foster Dulles. Even though Dwight worked endlessly to stop the wars, people still disagreed with his actions. “Eisenhower did not intervene militarily in Vietnam to save the French (1954) or in Eastern Europe to aid German and Hungarian revolts against Soviet domination (1953 and 1956).” (Funk & Wagnalls). Although he did not help those