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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower served as supreme
commander of Western Allied forces during World War
2, chief of staff of the U.S. Army (45-48),
president of Columbia University (48-50), military
commander of the N. A.T.O. (NATO; (51-52), and 34th
president of the U.S. (53-61). Eisenhower was born
in Denison, Tex., on Oct. 14, 1890. On July,1916,
he married Mamie Geneva Doud, the daughter of a
wealthy Denver, Colo., family. Two years later his impoverished
and devout family moved to Abilene, Kans., where he
grew up. He attended the U.S. Military School,
graduating as a second lieutenant (in 1915). At the
college he was a highly regarded cadet and, until
he sustained a injury in the knee, all-star
football player who displayed strong qualities of
leadership.
Dwight requested, but did not receive, an sea combat assignment during the first World War . Instead, serving at several training camps, he established himself as a first organizer and trainer of men. After the war, along with Lt. Patton, he was one of the early advocates of mobile armored tactics. From 22 to 24 (1922-1924)he was executive officer to General Conner, military commander of the Panama Canal . With Fox Conner's help, he was admitted to the Command and General School, graduating first in his class. He subsequently served on the Monuments Commission under General Pershing, studied at the Army War Academy, and had a tour of duty in the office of the assistant secretary of war (29-33).
Widely recognized as an super staff officer and first writer, Dwight was made administrative assistant to MacArthur in 33.
Jimmy Carter was the
thirty-ninth president of the United States, and
was born in Plains, Georgia on October 1, 1924. His
boyhood was growing up in a small community called
Archery. His mother worked as a registered nurse
and his father a farmer and businessman. He
attended the Plains public school, Georgia
Southwestern College, and Georgia Institute of
Technology. He also attended the United States
Naval Academy and achieved his B.S. degree in 1946.
Later he graduated at Union College in his vocation
in nuclear physics. While in his naval career he
acted as a submariner in both the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans and was promoted to
Lieutenant.
Jimmy
Carter from the Library of Congress
On July 7, 1946 he wed Rosalyn Smith. When his father died in 1953, he abandoned his job in the naval commission and returned to Plains. He tended to his own farm and his wife ran the Carter's Warehouse, a seed and farm supply company. He involved himself in the affairs of the community he was the chairman of the county school board and became the first president of the Georgia Planning Association. He vectored the election to the Georgia Senate in 1962. In 1966 he lost his first campaign to become a governor but won the upcoming election becoming Georgia's 76th governor on January 12, 1971. He was elected President on December 12, 1976.
John F.
Kennedy John F. Kennedy was the youngest
president ever elected and he was the youngest ever
to die in office. After two years 10 months of
chief executive on Nov. 22 1963 he was shot to
death. The death of Kennedy hurt people all over
the world. Kennedy was born in Brookline,
Massachusetts on May 29, 1917. Kennedy attended
schools in Brookline and Riverdale. When he was 13
his father sent him to the Canterbury School in New
Milford Conn. When he was 14 he was transferred to
Choate Academy in Wallingford Conn. When he was 18
he graduated from Choate in 1935.
Kennedy was the second son of
Joseph Kennedy and Rose Kennedy. Kennedy's ancestors were of
Wexford County in southeastern Ireland. His
great-grandfather left Ireland and settled in Boston.
Kennedy's grandfather became a state senator and the
political "boss" of a ward in Boston.
John
F. Kennedy from Library of Congress
After a series of television debates Kennedy won presidency away from Republican Richard M. Nixon. Kennedy declared that "a new generation of Americans would pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty." He told Americans: " Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country."
Kennedy as a leader of the Free World won world respect. When he turned aside an atomic war he greatly increased world prestige in 1962. In 1963, the United States,Soviet Union,and over 100 countries signed a treaty outlawing the testing of atomic bombs. Serious domestic problems were the blacks' demands for civil rights.