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How To Eisenhower A Good President

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Many people think that Dwight D. Eisenhower didn't do much during his presidency. That’s not true he actually did many things. Some people say he didn’t take much action during his presidency. That’s not true either, he just tried to do things without taking unnecessary actions. He had more experience than a lot of presidents with Military, which helped him to make those decisions. Eisenhower did many more things than just being in the military.
Dwight D. Eisenhower was born in Texas in 1890 (whitehouse.gov). When he was a year and a half his family moved back to Abilene, the family had lived there before, but moved to Texas because of a job. Eisenhower had some pretty impressive accomplishments during his life, even before presidency. He got accepted into the United States Military Academy, West Point, and graduated. He was president of Columbia University, and moved up …show more content…

But it wasn’t until 1952 that he actually started running for president. His slogan was “I like Ike”, Ike was his nickname. Eisenhower had a clear lead throughout most of his run, though he did have some issues. One of them was that there was a scandal about Nixon using campaign funds for personal use, this was also a pretty serious issue considering that Eisenhower had promised that his campaign would be very clean. Eisenhower ran against Taft in the first election, and he ran against Adlai Stevenson in both elections. Eisenhower won both elections. He ran two terms and because of that there were many things that happened during his presidency. When Eisenhower first got into Presidency the Korean War was still going on, but he ended it by making a deal with the Chinese. He considers this to be his greatest presidential accomplishment. Eisenhower balanced the budget three times. And he signed the Federal Highway Act of 1956, this created many of the highways we have

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