| 单词 | Eisenhower |
| 例句 | Three days later President Eisenhower trumped the state, federalizing the states guard and sending in US Army troops to escort the nine through the school’s doors. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z My old town had a park similar to Eisenhower Park in one way. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z General Dwight D. Eisenhower understood that the German people needed to be reeducated. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z As York learned later from General Andrew Goodpaster, Eisenhower’s military attache, his request had prompted the president to reflect that “the whole thing is crazy; something simply must be done about it.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Eisenhowers brochure put forth a vague, practically useless timetable for when the United States might be expected to achieve a variety of objectives in space: “Early,” “Later,” “Still Later,” “And Much Later Still.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z X, regarding him hostilely, stated that he didn’t want an Eisenhower jacket. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Eisenhower’s remarks revived the contempt for the very concept of a “safe” thermonuclear weapon that had been raised by Strauss’s invention of the “humanitarian H-bomb.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Eisenhower made it official on February 7, when he offered Stassen a consolation prize of a position elsewhere in the administration. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z There would be a meeting at Eisenhower’s vacation spot in Rhode Island after that. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Beneath was an article detailing how the United States, under President Eisenhower, had secretly worked to undermine elections that were supposed to unite North and South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z At nine o’clock in the morning on June 24, Strauss and his charges were ushered into Eisenhower’s presence inside the Oval Office. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Following Eisenhower’s order, Strauss summoned Oppenheimer to his Washington office for what he expected to be a decisive encounter. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Eisenhower responded by sending weapons and military advisors to South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Lewis Strauss’s monopoly on the scientific information reaching Dwight Eisenhower was about to end, taking with it Ernest Lawrence’s influence over nuclear policy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Eisenhower worried about the impact of military spending on the budget of the US government and feared it could crowd out other priorities and eventually stall America's roaring economic growth. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Eisenhower offered to reappoint him for a new term, but Strauss had grown weary of dodging brickbats in Washington. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Hey. Before I forget. We gotta get up at five tomorrow and drive to Hamburg or someplace. Pick up Eisenhower jackets for the whole detachment.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Eisenhower, now fully alive to the limitations of the scientific advice Strauss had been feeding him, disingenuously asked him to explain the discord in the scientific community about the efficacy of monitoring. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z After serving for eight years as Eisenhower’s vice president, Nixon had lost a heartbreakingly close race for president to John Kennedy in 1960. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z For the first time ever, Grandma placed dinner on trays in front of the television so we could hear President Eisenhower speak to the nation. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon, regular U-2 missions provided Eisenhower and the CIA with razor-sharp images of military bases, missile launching pads, and more. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Killian’s committee contained a diversity of scientific opinion that had been missing from Eisenhower’s scientific councils under Strauss. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Although Stassen’s idea resembled one that Eisenhower was quietly beginning to favor, it inspired an extended row at the NSC meeting. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Eisenhower had considerably exaggerated the scientists’ purported accomplishment. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z President Dwight Eisenhower installed him as his personal advisor on atomic energy in March and appointed him to the AEC chairmanship three months later. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I’m going to Eisenhower Park, the scene of Hannah’s first kiss. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z “President Eisenhower would never allow such a thing,” he said emphatically. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Once when President Eisenhower had visited Georgia years earlier, he supposedly ate dinner at the Lyndons’ home. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Bat Lady sat on a couch that looked as though it had been ready for the scrap heap during the Eisenhower administra-tion. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z The meeting ended with Eisenhower tabling Stassen’s plan, ostensibly for the moment. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z That ambivalence was most clearly embodied by the President of the United States, Dwight Eisenhower. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The face of Eisenhower beamed up at me, bald and blank as the face of a fetus in a bottle. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z In the fall of 1959, seeking to ease tensions with his rival, Eisenhower invited Khrushchev to make the first-ever visit by a Soviet leader to the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But after President Eisenhower had been in office almost a year, nothing was different. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Stassen saw the handwriting on the wall: his tenure as Eisenhower’s “secretary of peace” effectively had come to an end. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In late November 1954, CIA director Allen Dulles emerged from a meeting with President Eisenhower with orders to develop a top secret aircraft. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Hampton Roads had become the embodiment of what Cold War president Dwight D. Eisenhower would a decade later dub the “military- industrial complex.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The statement received prominent play in newspapers around the country on the morning of the election, which Eisenhower, as expected, won in a landslide. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The Church Committee found notes from secret meetings of the National Security Council and President Eisenhower. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Ernest and his colleagues left a profound impression on President Eisenhower, though not enough to prompt him to rule out a test ban entirely. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Mother’s picture of President Eisenhower looked down at me from the wall, and I crossed my arms over my naked chest for shame, crying even harder. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The flesh of General Eisenhower consumed by generations of predators will speak aloud. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z If texting had existed at that time, then Winston Churchill would have sent President Eisenhower a bunch of crying-face emojis. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Eisenhower also understood that young people were a powerful force that could help shape Germany’s future. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “You have a row of dominoes set up,” said President Dwight Eisenhower. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z President Eisenhower watched these developments and found himself deeply troubled. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Other documents covered the years after France’s defeat, as Eisenhower worked with the government of South Vietnam to delay and undermine elections they knew Ho Chi Minh would win. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Not long ago it was proved that Dwight D. Eisenhower was descended from the royal line of Britain, a proof if one were needed that everyone is descended from everyone. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind the scenes, Eisenhower set into motion a secret plan, dubbed Operation Mongoose, to discredit Castro. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But when York sent a proposal to test a twenty-megaton bomb to the White House for Eisenhower’s approval, he was crisply rebuffed. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Initially, President Eisenhower tried to pooh-pooh the Russians’ “small ball in the air” as an insignificant achievement, but the American people would have none of it. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z On May 6, Eisenhower and his advisers doubled down on their cover story, as reporters in Washington began asking questions about Khrushchev's accusations. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The very day after the Geneva meeting adjourned, Eisenhower proposed that negotiations begin on October 31. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z For democracy to work, Eisenhower realized that one of the most important civil liberties was the freedom of speech. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z On her way to the washhouse one morning after breakfast Fujiko had seen her middle daughter—she was only fourteen—standing in a group that included four boys dressed nattily in Eisenhower jackets. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z As Eisenhower predicted, the U-2 scandal exploded the new relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Initially, the US Department of Defense oversaw space matters, but President Eisenhower saw the need for a civilian space agency. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z For the first time since Eisenhower took office, the views of Strauss, Lawrence, and Teller were balanced by learned voices on the opposite side of the nuclear debate. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And President Eisenhower was right then sending his orders to take over the Congo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Lewis Strauss, determined to keep President Eisenhower on the path to thermonuclear supremacy, would demand more from Lawrence: more counsel, more public support, more time and effort. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Eisenhower replied levelly that he shared the same liabilities. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In the spring of 1958, Congress and the Eisenhower Administration set up the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in an attempt to put some order into the space program. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z In 1963 she was awarded the Presidential Appointed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Anderson served as a U.S. delegate to the United Nations in 1958. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z On May 3, Eisenhower authorized a false cover story. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I was really relieved and grateful that President Eisenhower had sent those soldiers to protect us, because how much trouble must we be in, if we needed that much military power? March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Project Mercury’s first orbital flight was originally slated to take place at the end of 1960, on President Eisenhower’s watch. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The information they contained was out of date—hardly the fresh intelligence on Soviet activities that President Eisenhower clamored for. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Huh, I thought you voted for Eisenhower. I thought Jefferson was one of the great souls of the Democratic Party or something.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “You know, boys, it’s a good thing when you’re talking to someone you don’t trust to get a record made of it,” President Eisenhower once advised a group of aides, including Vice President Richard Nixon. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Eisenhower listened in fascination, but tactfully schooled his visitors in the realities of international arms policy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He did not give a hoot what President Eisenhower had to say. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Oppie’s speech had been cleared by the White House and was said to have impressed Eisenhower himself. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Windows were broken, and outside the building an effigy of President Eisenhower was burned. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The struggles of Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott King were more familiar to me than those of Eleanor Roosevelt or Mamie Eisenhower. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Yesterday Churchill, Smuts, Eisenhower and Arnold visited the French villages that the British have captured and liberated. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Speaking from the White House, President Eisenhower said he sent troops because “Mob rule in Little Rock menaces the very safety of the United States and the free world.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z President Dwight Eisenhower, in his farewell speech in January 1961, railed against the United States’ growing military-industrial complex. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Throughout those days, while we scratched and haggled for our daily bread, I had a photograph of President Eisenhower for company in my kitchen house. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother even has a photo of President Eisenhower in there. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In the newspaper, I read about a new person, Dwight Eisenhower, who had become president in January of 1953. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Apparently Governor Stassen believes in the opinion of one group of scientists, and Admiral Strauss follows the views of another group,” Eisenhower observed. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But President Eisenhower had insisted that the nation’s first foray into space be presented as a peaceful effort, rather than an explicitly military operation that risked triggering a dangerous retaliation by the Soviet Union. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z We heard over the BBC that Churchill wanted to land along with the troops on D Day, but Eisenhower and the other generals managed to talk him out of it. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The $64,000 Question was so popular that even President Eisenhower watched it every week, telling his staff not to disturb him during its time slot. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Privately, Eisenhower began to dread what might happen if the U-2 program were exposed to the world, or the impact such a revelation might have on his new overtures to the Soviet leader. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z While I was trying to think up an excuse to leave, Dad leaned forward and predicted, “Dwight David Eisenhower will be the last good president this country will have for a very, very long time.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Far from giving up on the “humanitarian” H-bomb, Strauss redoubled his efforts on its behalf in his role of Eisenhower administration spokesman on the technicalities of nuclear policy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Arguments raged over Palestine and Israel and the possibility that Eisenhower might run for president. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Eisenhower understood that allaying the public’s concerns required concrete action. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In early April, Killian reported to Eisenhower and Dulles the conclusion of his experts that test ban violations could be detected with existing technology. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z President Eisenhower told Stassen he was “quite sure the Soviets have never given any thought to any inspection plan which involved the presence ... of anything like twenty to thirty thousand foreign inspectors.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Under normal circumstances, his demotion would have given Strauss an opening to lobby against the test ban; but Eisenhower was losing patience with Strauss, too, largely because of his intransigence on that very topic. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z At Strauss’s urging, Eisenhower declined to reappoint Murray when his term as commissioner expired on June 30. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Harry had gone in the Marine Corps, had landed in Lebanon when President Eisenhower had decided to help out over there. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z This was revisionist history, of course; the representations by the three scientists during their White House meeting the previous June were what had prompted Eisenhower to question publicly the wisdom of a test ban. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z There were families sheltered in cheap tent trailers, aging hippies in Day-Glo vans, Charles Manson look-alikes sleeping in rusted-out Studebakers that hadn’t turned over since Eisenhower was in the White House. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z At a White House meeting two weeks before Stassen’s departure, Strauss had reminded Eisenhower that his term as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission was to expire on June 30. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The integration had gone so badly that President Eisenhower sent in soldiers to help keep the peace. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Hoovers fattened dossier on Oppenheimer eventually landed on Eisenhower’s desk, with Strauss near at hand to interpret. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z His efforts succeeded: in December Eisenhower ordered that a “blank wall” be placed between the physicist and all classified or sensitive government information, pending further investigation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z General Eisenhower said to the French people: “Stiff fighting will come now, but after this the victory. The year 1944 is the year of complete victory. Good luck!” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The stories ranged from number one, the launching of Sputnik, to President Eisenhower’s stroke and the passage of the Civil Rights bill. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z W. Sterling Cole, a Republican from New York, took the initiative of arranging a meeting for the three physicists with President Eisenhower for the following Monday. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z President Eisenhower, for his part, was determined not to let communism get a foothold a mere ninety miles from Florida. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I told you the two trains met at Eisenhower Park at the bottom of the rocket slide. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Kennedy kept Eisenhower’s system, flicking a switch under his desk to activate mics concealed around the room. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z But the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy held jurisdiction over AEC appointments, and to appease its Democratic majority, Eisenhower named two former Truman aides, John S. Graham and John F. Floberg, to the open seats. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was Rabi who retained Eisenhower’s confidence in this lofty scientific dispute, however. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z A revised design was approved by the Eisenhower Commission two years ago. Tom Hanks lends a hand to Eisenhower Memorial in Washington 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z But surely it was his surprise announcement earlier this month that he is leaving his post in June after 17 years that raised the intensity in the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater. The Washington Ballet, perfectly balanced in Forsythe’s ‘In the Middle’ 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Nixon continued to seek Eisenhower’s advice on political and policy questions, but their relationship always remained stiffly formal, even after the marriage of Ike’s grandson, David, and Nixon’s daughter, Julie. Jeffrey Frank’s ‘Ike & Dick’: 2 strange political bedfellows 2014-02-05T21:55:34Z It follows a more limited 2010 tour, all much more than was originally planned for the group, named by Yorke - whose father was a nuclear physicist - after a 1953 speech by President Dwight Eisenhower. Thom Yorke readies tour with Atoms For Peace 2013-05-31T12:27:07Z When Eisenhower developed his own version of the New Deal, Taft Republicans exploded. This is how the GOP imploded: The real story behind the conservative crack-up, and the creation of Donald Trump 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z This was the clearest point made in the Washington Ballet’s production of Stephen Mills’s murky “Hamlet,” which opened Thursday at the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater. Washington Ballet’s ‘Hamlet’: Madness without method in it 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z The Eisenhower administration presented the coup as an attempt to thwart the scourge of communism, but lobbying by the U.S.-based United Fruit Co. played a major role. The border as muse: Two PST art shows look at flow of humanity between the U.S. and Mexico 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z Also, an aviation display takes place on Saturday at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow, N.Y. Memorial Day Weekend Listings for the New York Area 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z She welcomed the inclusion in the design of a sculpture of Eisenhower as a young man. Eisenhower Family Drops Objections to Memorial 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z Roberts offered a motion to support Gehry's concept, David Eisenhower seconded it, and it passed unanimously. New images show Ike's DC memorial amid criticism 2012-02-28T20:34:09Z The Advanced Research Projects Agency, which created the internet’s forebear, ARPANET, was President Eisenhower’s response to the launch of Sputnik by the Soviet Union, he writes. Growing up 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z And the House committee called for the whole process to be restarted and for the panel that oversees the project, the Eisenhower Memorial Commission, to be restaffed. Eisenhower Memorial Design Nears Approval, but Funding Remains Uncertain 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Eisenhower told the historian Stephen E. Ambrose that Higgins “won the war for us.” Museum Review: National World War II Museum, in New Orleans, Expands 2013-01-12T01:38:46Z A painting of the Executive Mansion that he executed on the White House lawn hung in President Dwight Eisenhower’s office for a time. A Family of Painters Is Having Its Moment 2011-06-07T03:00:06Z These employers are all the American presidents from Eisenhower to Reagan. Movie Review: ‘Lee Daniels’ The Butler’ Stars Forest Whitaker 2013-08-15T16:52:46Z The actors command the Eisenhower, and so many characters step forward and get their verbal and emotional punches in that the show feels truly panoramic. Abbey Theatre charges through KenCen with ‘The Plough and the Stars’ 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Eisenhower Memorial Commission chairman Rocco Siciliano says in a statement that he's "saddened" by the bill and calls it an insult to Eisenhower's legacy. Bill would block Frank Gehry's Eisenhower Memorial 2013-03-13T22:28:43Z But even before launching his political career, Percy was seen as a potential president of the United States by such influential admirers as former President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Former U.S. Sen. Charles Percy dies 2011-09-17T12:43:00Z “The Eisenhower Memorial Commission was repeatedly advised to halt work on the current design and to seek common ground with the Eisenhower family.” Eisenhower Memorial Design Nears Approval, but Funding Remains Uncertain 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z President Dwight D. Eisenhower kept a complete set of Lincoln’s writings in the Oval Office. Museum Review: Lincoln?s Legacy at Expanded Ford?s Theater Complex 2012-02-10T13:00:00Z A favorite print on display at the war museum showed Churchill meeting Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, dressed, astonishingly, in what we would now call a romper, or onesie, belted around his ample belly. For History-Minded Tourists, London Marks Blitz Anniversary 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z Frank Gehry’s revised design for a memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower on the Washington Mall was given preliminary approval in a 10-1 vote on Thursday. Design for Eisenhower Memorial Wins Preliminary Approval from Washington Panel 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z By 2009, Eisenhower's grandson, David Eisenhower, a member of the commission from 2001 until December, had played a central role in selecting Gehry as the lead architect, according to the documents. New images show Ike's DC memorial amid criticism 2012-02-28T20:34:09Z Harry S. Truman and Dwight Eisenhower enjoyed the genre, though their wives were the more devoted fans. The Mystery Buffs in the White House 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Put that corn on a plate with that Eisenhower steak and that scorched sweet potato, and you don’t just experience nirvana. Smoke Signals: Cooking in, not on, the fire As President Dwight D. Eisenhower once said, “Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the cornfield.” Resolved: No more bad garden habits 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z A few steps away, we paused at Norfolk House, a wide brick building where Eisenhower planned Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion better known as the Battle of Normandy. The Legacy De Gaulle Left in London 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z “The underlying support and power of the Eisenhower legacy remains strong,” Reddel said. Eisenhower Memorial plan gets nod from arts panel 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z “Whatever happens with our design, we are concerned about only one thing,” he said, “that a memorial is ultimately built, and that it will both honor what Eisenhower did and truly reflect who he was.” Congressional Report Faults Eisenhower Memorial Delays 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z Now, it will come to the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater on Sept. 11-22, starring Schreck and the current New York cast, immediately after its engagement at the Hayes Theater ends Aug. 24. ‘What the Constitution Means to Me’ is coming to the Kennedy Center, with its star 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Angel Luis Colon’s “Is This Tomorrow,” set in the Eisenhower administration, neatly injects “Manchurian Candidate”-style Cold War paranoia into a tale of an exterminator tasked with eliminating squirrels on the White House lawn. Can Political Satire Outpace Reality? 3 Books Toss Their Hats in the Ring 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z At that egg roll, Mamie Eisenhower noticed Black children gathering at the gates to the event and gazing longingly at the fun. Raccoons, rabbits and Sean Spicer: The camp and contradictions of the White House Easter Egg Roll 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z Still, over the 2¼ hours it burns up in the Eisenhower Theater, the musical reveals only that it is dispiritingly flat-footed. Review | You’ll groove to the pop hits in this stage revival of ‘Footloose.’ And nothing else. 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z “He appreciates the dedication of the Eisenhower Commission staff in seeing that this Memorial becomes a reality, and hopes an Eisenhower Memorial is completed soon.” Eisenhower Memorial panel moves foward with controversial Gehry design I thought about the difference between classics and novelty as I watched the Paul Taylor Dance Company in the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater on Wednesday night. Paul Taylor’s vintage works and classic joys 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z In response to objections that this was insufficiently respectful, Mr. Gehry replaced the child with Eisenhower as a 20-year-old West Point cadet and changed his depictions of two famous photographs into statues instead of bas-reliefs. Congressional Report Faults Eisenhower Memorial Delays 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z “Company B” and the joyous “Esplanade” Oct. 7-9 at the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater. kennedy-center.org. Perspective | In theaters or at home, dance is here to move you 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z In her email, Susan Eisenhower singled out “the change of theme to ‘The Beaches of Normandy in Peacetime,’ ” as key to her support. Review | The new Eisenhower Memorial is stunning, especially at night. But is this the last of the ‘great man’ memorials? 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z Susan Eisenhower said in an e-mail that she sympathizes with Dole and other veterans who want to see the memorial built. Bob Dole leads the fight for Ike 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Marian Anderson — the famed black singer who was once barred from performing at Constitution Hall — sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” for the inauguration of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Inauguration performances weren’t always so contentious: Highlights from the last 75 years 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z The HBO production was taped at a live performance at the Eisenhower Theater at the Kennedy Center, an incongruity given President Eisenhower’s ambivalence about the decision handed down in Brown v. | 'Thurgood': Marshall v. Bias: A Life Revealed in Anecdotes 2011-02-23T23:22:27Z Risen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter at The New York Times, documents the emergence of a “homeland security-industrial complex” more pervasive and more pernicious than the “military-industrial complex” Dwight Eisenhower warned against. James Risen’s ‘Pay Any Price’ 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z This caused them to withhold troops from the battle, a mistake that both Erwin Rommel and Dwight D. Eisenhower regarded as decisive to the Allies’ success. “Agent Garbo”: Wartime’s greatest double-cross 2012-07-08T22:00:00Z He wore a red-and-blue Eisenhower jacket, faded gray dad jeans and clunky white sneakers. Connor Jessup of ‘Locke & Key’ Gets His Nails Done 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z The movie says nothing about that effort, which is why McKay found himself arguing with a senior administration official in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. Some experts think ‘The Big Short’ is inaccurate. We asked the director to explain. 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Schaeffer proves a confident maestro of the design elements of this production, which look as good on Broadway as they did in the Eisenhower Theater in January. ‘Gigi’ skips uncertainly onto Broadway 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z Tom Hanks is joining the advisory committee for the Eisenhower Memorial Commission, a bipartisan body composed of members of Congress as well as some prominent private citizens. Tom Hanks lends a hand to Eisenhower Memorial in Washington 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Angel Luis Colon’s ‘Is This Tomorrow,’ set in the Eisenhower administration, neatly injects ‘Manchurian Candidate’-style Cold War paranoia into a tale of an exterminator tasked with eliminating squirrels on the White House lawn. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Her death in 1956 at age 45 of cancer was such a big news event that President Eisenhower began his news conference that morning with a tribute to her. 'Wonder Girl': the multifaceted sporting life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias 2011-07-20T20:43:03Z Even Eisenhower's version of peace and prosperity was not enough for Republicans. 'To Make Men Free' is a timely tale of the ever-changing GOP 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Imagine if, instead of picking the affable but ruthless Eisenhower to deal with our British ally, he had dispatched the blustery, hot-blooded George Patton, who had seniority over Ike. Battlefields: Recent Books in Military History 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z There also are the supposed favorites of George Washington and Dwight D. Eisenhower. A surprisingly modest birthplace for the country’s youngest elected president 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z “The Cat in the Hat” by Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, made its debut when Dwight D. Eisenhower was president. Anna Dewdney, creator of ‘Llama Llama’ series for young readers, dies at 50 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Dwight D. Eisenhower said the strategy of the war could not have been carried out without them. 3 Must-Sees at the World War II Museum 2012-01-18T15:50:03.177Z In 1952, he spent $500, mostly his father’s money, on a State Assembly race in Nassau County but lost in that year’s Eisenhower Republican sweep. Don Mankiewicz, Screenwriter in a Family Film Tradition, Dies at 93 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z On a few occasions, the same performer has performed at multiple inaugurations: The contralto Marian Anderson performed at both the inauguration of Dwight Eisenhower, a Republican, and Kennedy, a Democrat. Do it for the country? Or don’t do it at all? The dilemma facing artists at Trump’s inauguration. 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z The Kennedy Center production at the Eisenhower Theater in Washington opened this May and closed on June 19. ArtsBeat: 'Follies' Returns to Broadway With Kennedy Center Cast 2011-06-29T16:43:36Z In Scheer's eyes, this is a dangerous new iteration of the military-industrial complex that President Dwight D. Eisenhower famously and fruitlessly warned us about. Trying to make sense of the world of ubiquitous surveillance 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Taft loyalists insisted that the nomination rightly belonged to Senator Taft, and they never forgave Eisenhower for stealing it. This is how the GOP imploded: The real story behind the conservative crack-up, and the creation of Donald Trump 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z “I think the faces look like Eisenhower,” Mr. Harris playfully offered after nearly backing into one himself. For Tony Kushner, It’s Angels Over the Breakfast Nook 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z After seven years of Harry S. Truman and eight years of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the nation’s creative elites were hungry for affirmation. Perspective | John F. Kennedy became a hero to American art lovers — but he wasn’t one himself 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z The Eisenhower Memorial Commission, a bipartisan group heading up the project, said in a release on Thursday that with these approvals in hand, it is ready to break ground in 2015. Frank Gehry's revised Eisenhower Memorial design clears another hurdle 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Rocco Siciliano, the chairman of the Eisenhower Memorial Commission, which is charged with creating the memorial, said in the statement that he looked forward “to the next steps.” Design for Eisenhower Memorial Wins Preliminary Approval from Washington Panel 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z The Eisenhower stage looked densest during the thrilling finale of Balanchine’s “Diamonds,” which features 34 dancers, including additions from the Sarasota Ballet of Florida. Dance Review: Suzanne Farrell Ballet Shows Balanchine Pedigree - Review 2011-10-17T21:03:11Z The memorial received the required federal approvals two years ago but the Eisenhower family held firm in its opposition. With groundbreaking, elusive Eisenhower Memorial moves from dream to reality 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z Mr. Benson, 87, has photographed every president since Eisenhower, but he is not prognosticating about an invitation to Washington. Harry Benson, an Early Photographer of Trump, Looks Back and Forward 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z Appearing in some serious red-carpet plumage, the breathtakingly lovely former ballerina was the focal point and chief reward of the event in the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater. Julie Kent heralds an elegant new era for the Washington Ballet 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z In July 1960, after Kennedy became the Democratic nominee, Eisenhower directed the CIA to brief JFK on Cuba and other agency activities abroad. JFK loved James Bond: How Ian Fleming's spy novels influenced the CIA 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z In 1954, the Limón Dance Company was one of the first American dance troupes to be sent on a government-sponsored tour, to South America, under a new cultural diplomacy directive from President Dwight D. Eisenhower. U.S. Dance Troupes to Tour Overseas 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z That's compared with the relatively modest 29 million who watched the inauguration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower the following day. "Lucy" look-alikes honor Lucille Ball's 100th birthday 2011-08-06T22:49:25Z A powerful commission overseeing civic art and architecture in the nation’s capital voted Thursday to approve the general concept and layout of elements in Frank Gehry’s design for a national memorial honoring Dwight D. Eisenhower. Key arts panel approves Eisenhower Memorial design 2013-07-18T17:54:42Z Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who clamped a secrecy order over the whole affair, comes off as callous, indifferent to the loss of hundreds of men. Documentaries on D-Day, on PBS and the Smithsonian 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z At the beginning of his presidency, Dwight Eisenhower was forced to break with the tradition of his predecessors and give up the presidential suite in the Towers because his wife, Mamie, suffered from acrophobia. The dying world of “Grand Budapest Hotel” 2014-03-07T23:59:00Z Susan Eisenhower, a genetic Republican and registered independent, looked right at home. Scene City: Scene City – Inaugural Party for Both Parties 2013-01-23T00:06:04Z The long-delayed effort to create a national memorial for President Dwight D. Eisenhower is receiving a major boost in Hollywood star power. Tom Hanks lends a hand to Eisenhower Memorial in Washington 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z After four years of revisions, a smaller and more parklike version of Frank Gehry’s modern design for the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial received final approval from one of two key government agencies Thursday. Eisenhower Memorial plan gets nod from arts panel 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z One does not need advocate a return to the clean-cut conformity of the Eisenhower era to find the folderol being sold here fundamentally spurious. Review | Hipster style at its most annoying 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z And despite a library’s worth of books, letters, papers and oral histories documenting this president’s life and times, Eisenhower’s importance is only beginning to be widely noticed. Books of The Times: Evan Thomas’s ‘Ike’s Bluff’ Looks at Eisenhower 2012-09-24T22:29:05Z Nelson’s residence is at a golf resort at the California/Nevada border, in a house once belonging to Dwight D. Eisenhower. ‘The 11th Green’ Review: Investigating Aliens, Eisenhower and Golf 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Other sculptural elements would show the D-Day landing at Normandy in World War II as a backdrop for a statue depicting Eisenhower addressing his troops. Key arts panel approves Eisenhower Memorial design 2013-07-18T17:54:42Z Gehry’s current design features a steel tapestry defining the southern perimeter and two stone carvings with statues honoring Eisenhower as general and commander in chief. Eisenhower family and memorial commission agree on new design 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z While defending the American decision to use nuclear weapons in Japan, Professor O’Neill was critical of what he characterized as a congressional-military-industrial complex, a concept originally popularized by Eisenhower. William L. O’Neill, a Historian Who Wrote About Radicals, Dies at 80 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z He wouldn’t be the last to mention Eisenhower. Can hanging out with Tulsi Gabbard fans help us understand what her deal is? 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z Police quickly received a description of the gunman's getaway vehicle and pursued it on the Eisenhower Expressway, authorities said. 1 killed, 1 critically wounded in separate city shootings 2012-05-03T10:36:00Z She was born in Washington, D.C., in 1944, the second of three children of Wiley T. Buchanan Jr., the chief of protocol under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Dede Wilsey Is the Defiant Socialite 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z But he approaches the ever more changeable Eisenhower legacy with new and intriguing questions. Books of The Times: Evan Thomas’s ‘Ike’s Bluff’ Looks at Eisenhower 2012-09-24T22:29:05Z About civil rights, Mr. Thomas plays apologist for Eisenhower’s failure to be more outspoken. Books of The Times: Evan Thomas’s ‘Ike’s Bluff’ Looks at Eisenhower 2012-09-24T22:29:05Z It worked like a charm: Halfway across the Wilson Bridge, her phone chimed with a pickup near the Eisenhower Avenue Metro stop. On the road with an Uber driver: Can she cash in on the Metro shutdown? 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z The writer is the author of “Getting Religion: Faith, Culture and Politics From the Age of Eisenhower to the Ascent of Trump.” Letters to the Editor 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z But Eisenhower, according to Mr. Thomas, adopted a tough, all-or-nothing attitude toward armed conflict. Books of The Times: Evan Thomas’s ‘Ike’s Bluff’ Looks at Eisenhower 2012-09-24T22:29:05Z The growth of the military-industrial complex against which Eisenhower warned seems to have promoted the use of militaristic prototypes to solve all kinds of domestic ills. Review | Should museums mount exhibitions with a moral agenda? Absolutely. If they do it well. 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z There are currently 80 TSA workers at Eisenhower Airport who are not being paid due to the shutdown, KSN reported on Jan. 7. Teen presents Kansas TSA workers with free lunch amid government shutdown 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Just at the moment that Nixon becomes vice president to Eisenhower in ’52, Graham is emerging as this very, very famous American religious figure. Sarah Colt on Why 2021 Is the Right Time for a Film About Billy Graham 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z "There was a program started by Eisenhower and the United Nations to help refugees," says Munir. What is it like to be the brother of Robert Kennedy’s assassin? The life of the other Sirhan. 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z “You have a vote that doesn’t satisfy everyone as being legitimate, so the emotions course on,” Eisenhower said. Perspective | Ready for the media’s Comey swoonfest? Nothing can stop it now. 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z That was underlined again this summer, when a retooled version of the Henry Krieger-Bill Russell musical, produced in the center’s Eisenhower Theater, garnered highly admiring notices. ‘Side Show’ is Broadway bound When the students returned to the school it was with an Army escort, requested by Woodrow Wilson Mann, the mayor of Little Rock, and provided by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. An Opera About Little Rock Integration, With Libretto by Henry Louis Gates Jr. 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z So the scene was shot in Mr. Biden’s ceremonial office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, all hush-hush. Joe Biden to Appear on ‘Parks and Recreation’ 2012-11-08T02:07:22Z Polk portrays women and girls in clothing that hints Eisenhower is still president, with them often doing domestic tasks as traditional as the artist’s printmaking style. Review | In the galleries: Kathryn Polk’s images withhold as much as they reveal 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z After their presidencies, George Washington and Dwight D. Eisenhower were recommissioned into the armed forces, though this was symbolic and short-lived. Obama at 60: Feet on the dance floor, eyes on the future 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z The last person to last two full terms as press secretary was President Eisenhower’s spokesman, James Hagerty. The job of presidential press secretary takes a toll A few months later, she was widely depicted as a brazen predator after stealing Eddie Fisher from Debbie Reynolds, whose seemingly perfect marriage had been thought of as the most emblematic of the Eisenhower era. Elizabeth Taylor remembered by Philip French 2011-03-27T00:08:05Z The Eisenhower grandchildren have criticized it as too romantic and complained that it did not do justice to their grandfather’s global achievements. Bob Dole leads the fight for Ike 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z In 1999 Congress voted to add a memorial honoring former president Dwight D. Eisenhower to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., but the final design for the project was not approved until this year. Frank Gehry’s Design for the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Has Been Approved 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z As “an Eisenhower actor in a Dennis Hopper Hollywood,” Rick faces “a race to the bottom.” Review | Quentin Tarantino turned his last movie into a novel, but don’t think you know the ending 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z His family ran a silver and antique shop near the White House; Bell remembers first ladies Mamie Eisenhower and Jacqueline Kennedy visiting the store. Perspective | Arena’s political play campaign gets underway with major gift 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z David Eisenhower's sister, Anne Eisenhower, also attended the meeting and praised Gehry's design, but said the actual images chosen for the memorial would be important. New images show Ike's DC memorial amid criticism 2012-02-28T20:34:09Z Illinois State police received a call just before 12:30 a.m. about a car with a flat tire stopped on the inbound Eisenhower near Independence Boulevard, officials said. Woman in labor gets flat on way to hospital 2011-11-22T12:33:00Z Now, I frequently cook my steaks Eisenhower style. Smoke Signals: Cooking in, not on, the fire Ushering any construction project through Washington’s bureaucracy is never quick or easy, but the Eisenhower Memorial journey suffered multiple setbacks, most focused on architect Frank Gehry’s modern design, unveiled in 2010. With groundbreaking, elusive Eisenhower Memorial moves from dream to reality 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower changed his original plans for a D-Day invasion in the South of France, fearing that his soldiers would be distracted by topless beachgoers. Style Invitational Week 1403: Who was that masked man? 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z In 1980, they released an EP, “Eisenhower and the Hippies,” and once opened for the British new wave band Gang of Four. Rodney Graham, Conceptual Artist Who Starred in His Work, Dies at 73 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Clark was 16 and a backup running back for Eisenhower on Sept. Paralyzed high school football player dies at 27 2012-01-06T02:13:00Z At the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater, the touring production of Lapine’s 2016 Broadway revival — a Lincoln Center Theater production — is as up and down as the material. Review | ‘Falsettos’ revival brings back an era of liberation and fear 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z In the late 1940s, he entered Columbia University, when the school’s president was Dwight D. Eisenhower. Jason Epstein, publishing editor and innovator, dead at 93 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, the two Roosevelts, through even to Eisenhower and Nixon, want government, business and banking to collaborate often on a very large scale for national economic development. The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z The special guest that day was President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The short pledge we recite has a long story 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z President Dwight Eisenhower to fight hunger around the globe. Nobel panel to announce 2021 peace prize 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z Eisenhower plotted his D-Day strategy here during World War II, as Commander of the Armed Forces. | The Empire Strikes Back 2012-03-15T18:53:51Z Richard Nixon’s campaign staff had to talk him out of a plan to adopt his own version of Eisenhower’s signature slogan, “I Like Ike.” Style Invitational: B all you can B — a neologism contest 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Dwight Eisenhower spent his life repressing his inner self, and it helped the Allies win the second world war. You are not special 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Will the Eisenhower memorial be the last of the great man monuments? Perspective | With $250 million initiative, Mellon Foundation wades into monuments controversy, hoping for positive change 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Eisenhower’s family, led by granddaughter Susan Eisenhower, has never embraced the design. Bob Dole leads the fight for Ike 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z He worked with President Eisenhower on two White House memoirs, “Mandate for Change” and “White House Years: Waging Peace, 1956-1961,” and a more personal reminiscence, “At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends.” Samuel S. Vaughan, Publisher and Author, Dies at 83 2012-02-01T23:03:09Z Eisenhower's voice was carried in a prerecorded message in 1958 carried by the first communications satellite launched on a U.S. rocket. Simon & Garfunkel song among those to be preserved 2013-03-21T09:52:07Z The shrewdly retooled “Side Show,” based on the true story of conjoined twin sisters, is getting a brave new life in the Eisenhower Theater. ‘The Lion King,’ exuberant as ever, takes pride of place at the Kennedy Center He’s game for risk, playing Eisenhower in “Churchill,” now in postproduction. John Slattery’s turn from adman to ink-stained wretch 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Just look at the recent efforts to paint Frank Gehry's proposal for the Eisenhower Memorial as disrespectful or, in its mildly unkempt aesthetic, somehow un-American. Race, violence in Ferguson, Mo., cop killing play out on Main Street 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z It’s a highly promising work, but it needs a properly scaled frame, and the Eisenhower isn’t it. Review | Camille A. Brown’s “ink”: Beautiful etchings in space 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z Eisenhower lived until the end of the month. Chicago News Cooperative: A Vibrant Career at the Ballet, but With a Lens and Not Toeshoes 2011-10-09T04:45:15Z In “High Noon,” Frankel discusses the film’s creation against the backdrop of the “tectonic shifts in American politics and culture” that occurred during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations. Refugees and free speech: How Hollywood classics 'Casablanca' and 'High Noon' were shaped by politics 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical” opened its three-week run on Tuesday in the Eisenhower Theater, and the National Symphony Orchestra is performing Handel’s “Messiah” Thursday through Sunday in the Concert Hall. Kennedy Center cancels first 15 performances of ‘Ain’t Too Proud’ because of covid outbreak among company 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Eleven citizens addressed the panel, including two members of the Eisenhower Commission who offered dissenting views. Eisenhower Memorial clears key hurdle on Gehry design This list was linked to maps that were distributed to officers, along with General Dwight Eisenhower’s important directive to avoid damaging cultural sites whenever possible. A few good Monuments Men: Saving art from looting and destruction — especially in the Middle East — is a military matter 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Eisenhower apparently penned most of “Crusade,” and Carter has produced his own library of 25 titles, including “Why Not the Best?,” which came out before his 1976 election to introduce him to voters. Every candidate an author: The ceaseless boom in books by politicians 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z The executive director of the National Capital Planning Commission is recommending the government agency grant preliminary approval to the modified Frank Gehry design of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial at its monthly meeting Thursday. Committee staff recommends Eisenhower Memorial plan continue The event was also attended predominantly by White children until 1953, when Mamie Eisenhower saw Black children peering longingly through the White House gates and insisted that Black families be allowed in the next year. White House Easter Egg Roll to return for first time in two years 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z One of the benefits to the Eisenhower Matrix, Buck said, is that it promotes delegation and long-term planning. Set a tomato timer? Eat a frog? Be like Ike? Comparing 5 common productivity systems. 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z They seem like a prism into a lost world of Palm Beach cotillions from the Eisenhower years. Eyeglasses on Spec ? Online Retailers 2012-01-18T23:00:24Z The Frank Gehry-designed memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower, which opens in May, was a favorite target of his ire. Perspective | Why Trump shouldn’t be allowed to dictate how federal buildings are designed 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z When Gettysburg’s Hall of Presidents shut down back in January, Rachel Maddow bought the wax version of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Stephen Colbert bought a life-size Zachary Taylor. Watch Anna Kendrick Star in A Film About Warren G Harding 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z President Truman and President Eisenhower also received views of Marrakesh. Churchill paintings offered to nation 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z He was shooting footage for Eisenhower under the general’s command. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Bringing ‘Giant’ to the Big Screen 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z Hawaii finally became the 50th state on Aug. 21, 1959, under President Eisenhower. What Is Hawaii? 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z Authorized by Congress in 1999, the Eisenhower Memorial slogged through the federal regulatory process. Bob Dole leads the fight for Ike 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z There’s also a statue of Eisenhower as a youth. Revised Gehry design of Eisenhower Memorial get okay from fine arts panel “Not since Eisenhower,” C. Z. Guest, the American chairwoman of the show, said with typical hyperbole, “have the Americans had such a triumph in France.” American Fashion?s Coming-Out in Paris 2011-01-12T22:38:19Z Now, his mission is to get a memorial built for Dwight D. Eisenhower, whom Dole served under in Italy. Bob Dole leads the fight for Ike 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Is it possible to recapture some of that beguiling tastelessness today, in the more luxe confines of the center’s Eisenhower Theater? After 36 years, ‘Little Shop,’ a ‘close to perfect’ musical, comes to the Kennedy Center 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z In 1955 he was named finance chairman for the Republican Party in Illinois, a role he was apparently talked into by President Dwight Eisenhower. Former U.S. Sen. Charles Percy dies 2011-09-17T12:43:00Z Likewise, the Washington Ballet’s audience grew so much that the company regularly filled the Eisenhower Theater. Washington Ballet’s Septime Webre turned company into a big tent 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z His best movies arose directly from the suburban ennui of the Eisenhower era he grew up in: atom-bomb drills in school, the Bomb itself, 1950s television, consumerism, mindless conformity. They Live: John Carpenter's action flick needs to be saved from neo-Nazis 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z A bubbly Mamie Eisenhower type, Mrs. Lowe, explains to similarly dressed onlookers that the soldiers believe themselves to be attending a meeting of the club. Review: ‘The Manchurian Candidate,’ Eagerly Awaited, Has Premiere in St. Paul 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z The Eisenhower commission is frustrated that lawmakers may end up usurping the role of experts specifically charged with assessing the memorial’s design. Eisenhower Memorial Design Nears Approval, but Funding Remains Uncertain 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Eisenhower’s combination of courage, petulance and cunning are hard qualities to reconcile. Books of The Times: Evan Thomas’s ‘Ike’s Bluff’ Looks at Eisenhower 2012-09-24T22:29:05Z Seeing the folly of the argument, Eisenhower held fast against their use. 'Eisenhower: The White House Years': a most accomplished president 2011-11-09T23:04:08Z President Dwight Eisenhower came to the service for Chief Justice Fred Vinson in 1953 but did not attend the funeral of Associate Justice Robert Jackson a year later. Who showed up at Scalia’s funeral — and who didn’t 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z Kabaservice is the author, most recently, of "Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, from Eisenhower to the Tea Party." William F. Buckley Jr., Norman Mailer: An odd-couple relationship 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z In a letter to the Eisenhower Memorial Commission, which is overseeing the project, Anne and Susan Eisenhower, both grandchildren, said the changes do “not address the major problems identified by many stakeholders, including our family.” Gehry's Changes to Memorial Rejected by Eisenhowers 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z When Eisenhower tried to pet Chips, the dog nipped him, having been trained to respond only to his handler. Heroic dog is honored 75 years after saving the lives of U.S. soldiers 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Speaking of turnip greens, first lady Mamie Eisenhower showed the nation her strong belief in their recuperative powers. From pig’s feet to corn bread, a history of soul food in the White House 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z “Goldberg Variations — Ternary Patterns for Insomnia” opened at the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater on Thursday, and by the end of its 75 minutes, I wasn’t any closer to the answer. Review | Andersson Dance takes on Bach’s ‘Goldberg Variations’ 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z The President’s Box on the first tier came next, followed by visits to dressing rooms, the Eisenhower Theater’s green room, and the Opera House orchestra pit. Before his final bow, a Kennedy Center veteran hands out one last backstage pass 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z The Illinois Department of Transportation reported slick and icy conditions on the Stevenson and Eisenhower Expressways and the Bishop Ford Freeway. Snow, ice cause numerous accidents 2012-01-02T13:22:00Z A government planning agency granted preliminary approval Thursday to a smaller version of the controversial Frank Gehry design for the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial. Eisenhower Memorial clears key hurdle on Gehry design There's almost like a sense of money in the air under the sprawling Eisenhower suburban image. John Cusack on preparing for role as Brian Wilson in 'Love & Mercy' 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z The Roundabout Theatre Company’s version, co-directed by Mendes and choreographer Rob Marshall, is finishing its tour at the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theatre, where it continues to be imposing, dour, and not much fun. Review | Sam Mendes’s ‘Cabaret’ icy and not much fun at the Kennedy Center 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z “Limits,” at the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater through Saturday, opens with a breathtaking image of an aerialist springing high over the stage and almost vanishing into billowing fabric that’s like the ocean’s surface. Review | Cirque du Soleil, it’s not. Cirkus Cirkor is less about spectacle and more about mission. 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z For the earlier work, Mr. LaChiusa propelled his title characters — Jackie Kennedy, Mamie Eisenhower and Eleanor Roosevelt — up into the air, literally, as they contemplated their restricted roles from the lofty privacy of airplanes. Review: In ‘First Daughter Suite’: Unelected but Still Under a Microscope 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z The original design featured three large-scale metal tapestries along the park’s perimeters and a memorial core of sculpture and bas-relief celebrating Eisenhower as both military leader and the country’s 34th president. With groundbreaking, elusive Eisenhower Memorial moves from dream to reality 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z On Aug. 8 and 9, the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater will host two performances of “Noli Me Tangere,” a tale of love, intrigue and nationalism set in the Philippines during Spanish colonial rule. ‘Noli Me Tangere’ Filipino opera will tell moving tale at Kennedy Center Instead, the focus here is on the military experience that prepared Eisenhower for leadership: the ability to make do with limited means, to delegate authority, to cooperate with allies and keep up morale. 17 Great Books About American Presidents for Presidents’ Day Weekend 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Chapin died only hours before he was to perform a free concert before an expected crowd of 25,000 at the island's Eisenhower Park. Singer Harry Chapin recalled as a charitable giant 2011-07-14T06:34:08Z In an informed, captivating account, Newton makes the Eisenhower presidency relevant to the 2012 election ahead. 32 of the year's best books 2011-12-07T23:43:04Z In the half-hour before the musical “Once” begins, you can hit the cash bar on the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater stage and hang out with musicians serving up foot-stomping songs. ‘Once’ again bares the soul of a Dublin busker, this time on stage 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Kalil moved nimbly among the affluent participants and through the ornate halls of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, where the summit was held. White House Hosts ‘Next Generation’ Young and Rich 2014-04-18T21:49:51Z The convoy’s success later encouraged President Dwight Eisenhower to support the first interstate highway system. New Army Museum highlights innovation and individual stories 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z The Eisenhower administration passed the Johnson Amendment with a strong bipartisan majority, facing little opposition to its signing. The scary implications of Trump’s Prayer Breakfast speech: Destroying the line between church and state would be terrible for LGBT people 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z Schulz was a history buff and considered himself an Eisenhower Republican, but he mostly stayed away from politics in his cartoons. As 'Peanuts' turn 60, Schulz family plans future 2010-10-05T15:01:00Z Colorizing iconic black and white stills of Allied commanders like Dwight Eisenhower and British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery was another way to connect with younger viewers. ‘D-Day 3D: Normandy 1944’: a riveting, inventive retelling 2014-03-29T02:15:43Z Star actresses get short or no shrift; the on-screen evidence suggests that the Warners lot from the Eisenhower through the Nixon era was totally a man’s world. The OSS 117 Films: Michel Hazanavicius' Warmup for The Artist 2012-02-17T17:45:28Z Most of the attention and criticism has focused on large metal tapestries, proposed by Gehry to portray Eisenhower's Kansas roots, and a statue of a young Eisenhower. New images show Ike's DC memorial amid criticism 2012-02-28T20:34:09Z In 2011, I moved from the Eisenhower Building into the West Wing as a press wrangler, herding journalists across the country and around the world with the President. Watching Trump Win at the White House 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z He twitted Dwight D. Eisenhower for his dullness. Mort Sahl, Whose Biting Commentary Redefined Stand-Up, Dies at 94 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z To give just two examples: Harry Truman defied Stalin’s blockade of West Berlin and Dwight Eisenhower ignored Khrushchev’s threats toward that same city. How Generations of Russians Have Tried to Influence American Elections 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Patrons walking into the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater were greeted by a mariachi band, and after Webre spoke, a series of bright, bounding dances followed. What the Washington Ballet needs in a new director 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z Dwight Eisenhower and Woodrow Wilson served as university presidents. A president unlike any other 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z Although I knew my father had been assigned to Eisenhower’s staff, he never said much about it. Monuments Men: A Baltimore writer learns her father helped in the search for Nazi plunder The National World War II Memorial, which opened in 2004, cost more than $180 million, and the price tag for the recently opened memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower was $145 million. Perspective | With $250 million initiative, Mellon Foundation wades into monuments controversy, hoping for positive change 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z “It was an innocent time – the Eisenhower years, before a lot of bad stuff happened,” says Tom Lisanti, author of Hollywood Surf and Beach Movies: The First Wave, 1959-1969. Turning the tide: why surf films have lost their counterculture cachet 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z To unify the memorial, Reddel said, Gehry added the statue of a young Eisenhower gazing at what his life would become as war hero and president. New images show Ike's DC memorial amid criticism 2012-02-28T20:34:09Z The modifications proposed by the architect Frank Gehry to his design of a memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower planned for the Washington Mall are insufficient, members of the Eisenhower family say. Gehry's Changes to Memorial Rejected by Eisenhowers 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z The Senate committee, meanwhile, provided $1 million in operating funds to keep the commission in business, but said, “Construction should not commence until there is broad support among the public, the Eisenhower family and Congress.” Eisenhower Memorial Design Nears Approval, but Funding Remains Uncertain 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z They held the pilots hostage, hoping to confront President Eisenhower with one more embarrassment before he left office. Kennedy-Nixon 1960 election clash: The last time Russians intervened in a U.S. election 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z He worked on and off with Hampton until 1953 and performed that year at the first inauguration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Jimmy Scott, hard-luck singer with a haunting voice, dies at 88 As Dwight Eisenhower watched his inaugural parade from a reviewing stand in 1953, he was lassoed like a runaway steer by a cowboy movie star. A presidential inauguration for the history books 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Their partnership began in 1952, when Eisenhower secured the Republican presidential nomination and chose the young senator from California as his running mate. Jeffrey Frank’s ‘Ike & Dick’: 2 strange political bedfellows 2014-02-05T21:55:34Z The nine black students integrated Central High School in September 1957 after President Dwight Eisenhower sent in federal troops to escort them into the school. Paul McCartney says he met with two of the women who integrated Little Rock's Central High School, saying the 1957 crisis inspired the Beatles' hit song "Blackbird." 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Television was in its creative infancy when Dwight D. Eisenhower entered office in 1953, and he took quick advantage of the power of its immediacy. Obama Understood the Power of Art. And He Wanted You to Get It, Too. 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z The book captures the bewildering, incoherent melding of Eisenhower values with a late beatnik obsession with the artist. Cultural Studies: Sharing Her Secrets 2011-03-24T21:13:59Z Within six months of his landslide election victory in 1952, President Eisenhower “ended the Korean conflict with an armistice no one liked and everyone desperately wanted.” Think You Know the 1960s? ‘The Shattering’ Asks You to Think Again. 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z The Eisenhower Memorial Commission, which is overseeing the project, called the July 25 report unfair and inaccurate in its depiction of the spending. Congressional Report Faults Eisenhower Memorial Delays 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z The first lady favored strapless evening gowns, and Mr. Scaasi wrote, “I was very pleased that Mrs. Eisenhower wanted to look so stylish.” Arnold Scaasi, fashion designer to movie stars and first ladies, dies at 85 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z But unlike the World War II and Eisenhower memorials, both spurred by the urgency of an aging generation of veterans, the last American WWI veteran died in 2011. America is chock-full of World War I memorials, so why build another one? 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Eisenhower may have been a Republican, but he was a very different politician than his party now supports. Review | The new Eisenhower Memorial is stunning, especially at night. But is this the last of the ‘great man’ memorials? 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z Under the redesign, several statues depicting Eisenhower at various stages of his career were added and the family made no mention of that issue Wednesday except to call many of the changes “positive and welcomed.” ArtsBeat: Eisenhower Family Welcomes Some Proposed Memorial Changes, Rejects Others 2012-05-30T19:46:30Z That concept was widely accepted once, back when Dwight D. Eisenhower and Lyndon B. Johnson posed guiltlessly for Oval Office portraits wearing gold Rolexes. Joe Biden, Watch Geek in Chief 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z That plan in Vietnam, too, was secret, Boyle writes — “which was exactly how Eisenhower wanted it to be.” Think You Know the 1960s? ‘The Shattering’ Asks You to Think Again. 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z The most relevant, insightful comic of the moment is a fictional female dispensing one-liners in the Eisenhower era. Louis C.K. is back, and it's bad: Leaked stand-up set shows he's lost more than his reputation 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z There was a feeling of gradual government creep from the New Deal through World War II, through the Eisenhower years, and through Kennedy. Richard Nixon would be “drummed out” of GOP today as a liberal: “He passed as much social welfare legislation as Lyndon Johnson” 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z One of Urso’s neighbors figured it out when she came across an old Time magazine that mentioned that the town’s eight residents cast their vote for Dwight D. Eisenhower at 12:02 a.m. in 1952. Dixville Notch and the midnight vote will not die without a fight 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z He was just 16 years old and a backup running back for Eisenhower when he was tackled in a football game. Friends remember Rocky Clark 2012-01-14T21:08:00Z Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy’s beauty, her modern touch, and her youthful, cutting-edge style would soon eclipse Mrs. Eisenhower’s frumpy shirtwaist dresses, pearl chokers and short bangs. When first ladies meet: An awkward post-election White House tradition 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z Between the sculptures is a statue of Eisenhower in a West Point uniform. Architect promises better design for Washington Eisenhower memorial 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Dwight D. Eisenhower’s vision of an interstate road system changed transportation in America. As we enter the summer of the statecation, it’s time we updated our expectations of the ‘Great American Road Trip’ 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z The piece, already performed in other cities this year, came to the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater on Saturday night as part of the Direct Current festival. Review | In three parts, an artistic reexamination of Robert Mapplethorpe 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z The Eisenhower Theater crowd roared its enthusiasm in a way I’ve never heard at the Kennedy Center for a ballet dancer. Misty Copeland’s swan queen takes wing at Kennedy Center 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Two books have been written about Eisenhower’s secretary, Ann Whitman; they are out of print and barely figure in Mr. Smith’s biography. Books of The Times: Evan Thomas’s ‘Ike’s Bluff’ Looks at Eisenhower 2012-09-24T22:29:05Z Eisenhower’s unwillingness to publicly back his running mate puzzled the press and drove Nixon to distraction. Jeffrey Frank’s ‘Ike & Dick’: 2 strange political bedfellows 2014-02-05T21:55:34Z When the manned space program -- what we now call "human spaceflight" -- started during the Eisenhower administration, they really weren't sure what sort of people might be needed for spaceflight. Author of Neil Armstrong biography "First Man": He understood "the place of humankind in the cosmos" 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z Roosevelt was delighted, unlike Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was lassoed by a cowboy at his 1953 parade. A White House turned madhouse, a lassoed new leader and other unusual inauguration tales 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Expect to see a lot of those moves onstage in the Eisenhower Theater, and even a few more. Perspective | Will ‘Ain’t Too Proud’ be better than other jukebox musicals? 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z In 1957, after the shocking — to her — discovery that Black children were not allowed in her Virginia public school, young Drew wrote to President Eisenhower. A Harvard President’s Reflections on a Southern Girlhood 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z Frank, a small-C Eisenhower conservative, just wants people to be civil. God Bless America is a B-movie that hits the spot 2012-06-29T23:05:00Z In talking about Gabbard, he mentioned Dwight D. Eisenhower’s warnings about the military-industrial complex. Can hanging out with Tulsi Gabbard fans help us understand what her deal is? 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z The architectural design team - headed by famed architect Frank Gehry - is working on new ideas to respond to criticisms from the planning commission, said Dan Feil, executive architect of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission. Architect promises better design for Washington Eisenhower memorial 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z The Washington Ballet’s “Latin Heat” program began with a mariachi band welcoming us into the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater with bright, chirpy brass. ‘Latin Heat’: Washington Ballet’s mash-up revels in high energy 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Until very recently, Dwight D. Eisenhower has done a remarkably good job of hiding in plain sight. Books of The Times: Evan Thomas’s ‘Ike’s Bluff’ Looks at Eisenhower 2012-09-24T22:29:05Z Perry points out that when Adlai Stevenson lost his 1952 and 1956 Democratic bids for president against Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower, Stevenson’s marital status probably played a large role. Analysis | Cal Cunningham lost. Katie Hill resigned. Are we still put off by sex scandals? 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Luce used this logic to convince President Dwight Eisenhower to send the journalist Fleur Cowles to the coronation as one of his official representatives. In 1953, "Queen-crazy" American women looked to Elizabeth II as a source of inspiration 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z Mellow ease was raised to virtuosic heights in the Jason+Ronald K. Brown/Evidence program at the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater on Wednesday night. Jason+dance equals a soothing spiritual massage at Kennedy Center 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Rather than pretend it hadn’t happened, Eisenhower insisted on making details of his illness public. The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z You come quickly to that understanding in the Eisenhower Theater, even as you struggle to keep up with the English translation of Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure” being projected onto a screen far above the stage. Review | If Shakespeare in Russian is on your bucket list, here’s your chance to cross it off. 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z In the 30 years after Eisenhower’s heart attack, trial after trial failed to conclusively bear out the association he claimed to have identified in the Seven Countries study. The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Anne Eisenhower, a granddaughter of the general and president, said in an interview: “There would be one more hurdle and that’s the funds — unless they’re going to build it themselves.” Gehry's Revised Eisenhower Memorial Is Approved 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z I left the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater on Thursday wishing this troupe would think bolder, be more imaginative. Review | Questions swirl around Washington Ballet with guest artists and loss of Brooklyn Mack 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z The long-stalled, $150 million memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower was given new impetus on Monday after Eisenhower family members lifted their objection to the Frank Gehry design, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission announced. Eisenhower Family Drops Objections to Memorial 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z In their letter the Eisenhowers instead called for “a simpler design” or “a complete redesign, which is open to all, including Gehry Partners.” Gehry's Changes to Memorial Rejected by Eisenhowers 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z To jog his memory he stands in the spacious green room in the wings offstage at the Eisenhower and looks at the show posters, which go back decades. Exit Max Woodward after four decades at the Kennedy Center 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Dwight Eisenhower was criticized for the Korean War, which some now regard as vital to the balance of power in Asia. Donald Trump may be the best thing that ever happened to George W. Bush 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z The result is called caveman steak, dirty steak and, yes, Eisenhower steak. Smoke Signals: Cooking in, not on, the fire The roots of the Kennedy Center date back to the late 1950s, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a bill calling for the creation of a National Cultural Center. Perspective | At 50, Kennedy Center can no longer be a cultural island 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z What happens next for the Eisenhower Memorial remains uncertain. Eisenhower Memorial Design Nears Approval, but Funding Remains Uncertain 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z “What about the Mamie Eisenhower precedent?” offered one friend of the Clinton family. Is Bill Clinton running for first gentleman? No? Well, it doesn’t hurt to speculate. They’ve all been assembled in the Eisenhower Theater for the latest installment of Broadway Center Stage, which is turning out to be a premier addition to the arts center’s programming. Review | Trouble? Ya got none in Kennedy Center’s revival of ‘The Music Man.’ 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z It was early March 1968 and Eisenhower was losing a long fight against coronary heart disease. Chicago News Cooperative: A Vibrant Career at the Ballet, but With a Lens and Not Toeshoes 2011-10-09T04:45:15Z Given such a paean to heroism, it does seem fitting that another warrior, General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower, was reading “Sir Nigel” on his deathbed. Review | Arthur Conan Doyle wrote more than detective novels. Let’s not forget his more swashbuckling stories. 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z But watching Ellams’s “Barber Shop Chronicles” this week at the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater, you will be struck by parallels: the camaraderie of black men. Review | ‘Barber Shop Chronicles’ eavesdrops on men getting haircuts 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z A couple of places — the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, and the Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kansas — are so ruggedly non-triumphalist they offer critiques of the very conflict that their principal subjects waged so assiduously. America’s forgotten war 2012-11-23T15:00:00Z Bright Star,” which begins performances on Wednesday in the Eisenhower Theater before an official opening here on Dec. 17, joins a spate of musicals whose pedigrees are burnished with famous-name creators. For Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, musical theater isn’t so wild and crazy 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Her adolescence coincided with the cookie-cutter conservative age of Dwight D. Eisenhower, and her family’s expectation — “once they found out that I was smart” — was that she would become a teacher. An ‘Impossible Dream’ Comes True, Again, for Marylouise Burke in ‘Epiphany’ 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z He considers Eisenhower, a fellow Kansan, “one of the great Americans.” Bob Dole leads the fight for Ike 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Eisenhower grinned, but his son later said the stunt irritated him. A White House turned madhouse, a lassoed new leader and other unusual inauguration tales 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower wanted many witnesses to the Nazi atrocity so that reports of it couldn't be dismissed as propaganda. Grandfather's hidden photos inspire Holocaust film 2013-04-04T06:55:09Z Dwight D. Eisenhower, Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan all were cheerleaders in high school. “They ripped him apart”: Searching for answers in the suicide of bullied teen Jadin Bell 2013-09-08T11:00:00Z It took seasoned negotiator and former secretary of state James Baker III to bring together the Eisenhower family and those trying to build a memorial to their grandfather. Eisenhower family and memorial commission agree on new design 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z But as presenters including Spike Lee, Whoopi Goldberg and Michael Moore made clear, Mr. Belafonte has been an outspoken activist for racial justice since the Eisenhower years, when such a stand could prove career-threatening. Harry Belafonte Turns 95 With a Call for Social Justice 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z The uptick also involves more frequent use of the 1,164-seat Eisenhower Theater for touring musicals, and longer runs for some of them. Perspective | How the Kennedy Center’s theater chief sniffs out Broadway-worthy winners 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Minutes released to the AP by the Eisenhower Memorial Commission show how the design process unfolded with input from Eisenhower's family. New images show Ike's DC memorial amid criticism 2012-02-28T20:34:09Z It was built by Victor Purse, a State Department official whose happiest years in Foggy Bottom were the three he spent as deputy and acting chief of protocol during President Dwight Eisenhower’s first term. Spy chic: What made this couple fall in love with a (possible) former safe house? 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z “It was not Ike’s best moment,” said David A. Nichols, author of “A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution.” In the footsteps of Martin Luther King Jr. in Washington 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Eisenhower considered it but nixed the idea since the Posse Comitatus Act largely prohibits the use of the military for domestic law enforcement. The largest deportation campaign in US history is no match for Trump’s plan 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Glass observes: “It was not the moment for the supreme Allied commander, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, to be seen to condone desertion.” Books of The Times: ‘The Deserters,’ a World War II History by Charles Glass 2013-06-09T21:32:20Z Harry Truman was convinced that Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, was a Communist, and Dwight Eisenhower’s secretary of state, the starchy John Foster Dulles, harbored similar sentiments. India and the United States: Two Countries That Can’t Live With Each Other or Without Each Other 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z Is the Eisenhower Memorial the last “great man” monument in Washington? Review | Planet Word, a new museum devoted to language, is a high-tech, feel-good experience 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z The show was an indictment of the soul-crushing nature of commercialization set in the Eisenhower years, before the counterculture and the sexual revolution. Don Draper, Eleven, Selina Meyer lead AP roles of the decade 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z She started out as a dancer and TV bit-player, and the sexist norms of the Eisenhower era defined her early roles. Mary Tyler Moore: a true cultural icon who changed the face of television 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Four years later, Truman was back on the trail trying to stop the reelection of President Dwight D. Eisenhower — and telling crowds it was the most important race in a quarter-century. Do you really believe this is the most important election of our lives? Because we’ve heard that before. 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z “It simply defies logic and decency to design and build a memorial to Dwight Eisenhower without obtaining the approval of the Eisenhower family,” Calvert said in an e-mail. Eisenhower Memorial plan gets nod from arts panel 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z The long-planned Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial in Washington cleared another hurdle this week when the U.S. Frank Gehry's revised Eisenhower Memorial design clears another hurdle 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z His latest book was called "Two Americans: Truman, Eisenhower, and a Dangerous World" and was published in April. Historian, author William Lee Miller dies in NYC 2012-06-06T20:32:09Z Congress approved the Dwight D. Eisenhower National Memorial in 1999 to pay tribute to the 34th president and World War II general. Eisenhower Memorial to consider plan that removes most of Frank Gehry’s designs On 23 September, 1955, US President Dwight Eisenhower suffered a heart attack. The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z The Cleavers represented the classic white middle class family of the Eisenhower era, while Eddie represented danger in a ’50s kind of way — he chewed gum and wore a jean jacket. Ken Osmond, the Troublemaker Eddie Haskell on ‘Beaver’, Dies at 76 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z Eisenhower's message of peace to the world transmitted from space was touted as a victory in the space race after the Soviet Union launched a satellite the year before. Simon & Garfunkel song among those to be preserved 2013-03-21T09:52:07Z There are horrible close-ups of a bloodied protester, his head crushed to the concrete by an officer’s club; rain falls on the Diet, and cars burn in front of “Welcome Eisenhower” posters. A Countercultural Dreamland From Tokyo Flickers at MoMA 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z We were so relieved to have a young, good-looking person in the White House after Eisenhower.” The Night Marilyn Sang to JFK: Rare Photos 2012-05-18T07:17:53Z “I wanted to bring three exciting Broadway shows that can be looked at in a new way,” Finn says of his concert roster in the Eisenhower, “and from three different eras.” Kennedy Center announces theater season around ‘Hamilton’ 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Eventually the deadlock was broken by President Eisenhower, who sent in 1,200 troops from the army’s elite 101st Airborne division to take control. Minnijean Brown-Trickey: the teenager who needed an armed guard to go to school 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z Now that the memorial Frank Gehry designed to honor Dwight D. Eisenhower is finished, the acclaimed architect isn’t dwelling on the turmoil and rancor stirred up by those who opposed his design. Review | The new Eisenhower Memorial is stunning, especially at night. But is this the last of the ‘great man’ memorials? 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z Is the Eisenhower Memorial the last of the ‘great man’ monuments? Review | New Native American memorial offers peace in the heart of one of the city’s few wild spaces 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z At the time, Hope genteelly ribbed the demagoguery of anti-Communism: “Eisenhower isn’t really worried about Russia using the atomic bomb,” he said in 1953. Exhibition Review: ?Hope for America? at the Library of Congress 2010-06-11T22:47:00Z State Police investigate the scene where a female pedestrian was struck and killed on the inbound Eisenhower Expressway this morning. Woman killed while walking along Eisenhower 2011-09-02T14:11:00Z Both Bergman projects will be in the Eisenhower. Kennedy Center announces theater season around ‘Hamilton’ 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Standing between a granddaughter of Dwight D. Eisenhower and a fifth-generation descendant of James Monroe, she helped plant a sapling from the White House’s Eisenhower oak tree. Amid uproar, Melania Trump placates as her husband provokes 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z Jackie could only laugh, admitting, “I was too scared of Mrs. Eisenhower to ask.” When first ladies meet: An awkward post-election White House tradition 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z Newton doesn't hold Eisenhower fully accountable for those actions, or for Ike's elevation of Richard Nixon to the national stage. 'Eisenhower: The White House Years': a most accomplished president 2011-11-09T23:04:08Z It is this melodic combustibility that fuels the thrilling revival of “Next to Normal” now occupying the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater. Review | ‘Next to Normal’ is back. It’s still a glorious, heartbreaking experience. 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z His lieutenant told Eisenhower to “go to hell” for his plan to send troops to the slaughter. ‘Fargo’ Season 2, Episode 9: Going Undercover 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z An immaculately acted new American play in the Eisenhower Theater? Review | Richard Thomas, Pamela Reed, Daisy Eagan are sublime in ‘The Humans’ 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z David Eisenhower was the only person to serve on both the design jury and an evaluation board that recommended Gehry as the top choice to the full commission. New images show Ike's DC memorial amid criticism 2012-02-28T20:34:09Z As the outdoor opera rehearsal got underway here, they were playing a round of golf, wielding comically outsize clubs and singing about Eisenhower, Kennedy and their swings. ‘Cubanacán’ Imagines When Che and Fidel Compared Golf Swings 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Brown’s troupe, Camille A. Brown & Dancers, made its Kennedy Center debut at the Eisenhower Theater this weekend, and it was in that vast, 1,100-seat house that she premiered her newest work, “ink,” on Saturday. Review | Camille A. Brown’s “ink”: Beautiful etchings in space 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z The "barefoot boy" phrase comes from Eisenhower's own reminiscences. New images show Ike's DC memorial amid criticism 2012-02-28T20:34:09Z Although the original legislation creating a national performing arts center was signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Kennedy strongly supported it, and the center, which opened in 1971, is named for him. ArtsBeat: Kennedy Center to Honor Anniversary of John F. Kennedy's Inauguration 2010-10-13T16:17:00Z Eisenhower's singular accomplishment, though, was in his delicate handling of nuclear weapons, whose prohibition was far from preordained at the beginning of his first term. 'Eisenhower: The White House Years': a most accomplished president 2011-11-09T23:04:08Z While pink bathrooms started appearing as early as the 1930s, many credit Mamie Eisenhower with popularizing them in the 1950s. Bathrooms: Pretty in Pink, Again 2010-12-30T00:05:36Z Illinois State police on the scene of a fatal rollover crash on the Eisenhower Expressway. Woman killed in rollover crash on Eisenhower 2012-05-20T10:33:00Z Bowie & Queen will be performed by the Washington Ballet at the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater through May 8 and May 13-15. With ‘Bowie & Queen’ Washington Ballet brings solace to goodbye 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Lesley Stahl’s review refers to the Eisenhower years, when “women became stay-at-home moms in the suburbs and many … were bored to tears.” Is There a Double Standard for Survivors of Boko Haram? 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Diaz’s “Antigonón,” at the Eisenhower on Tuesday and Wednesday this week, was a robust 85-minute vaudeville of sorts in which five actors took a jaundiced look at Cuban society. Perspective | The world still comes to Washington’s stage 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Eisenhower extricated the United States from Korea, but he also staged secret coups in Iran and Guatemala, eventually committing military aid to what his advisers called “nation-building” in the southern half of Vietnam. Think You Know the 1960s? ‘The Shattering’ Asks You to Think Again. 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z To move forward, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission must now secure funding for the project, which is estimated to cost $142 million. Frank Gehry’s Design for the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Has Been Approved 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z At the time he left office, Dwight Eisenhower was the oldest president. Perspective | Just imagine what kind of president we might elect after Trump 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z It’s an exciting, bittersweet time for the Washington Ballet, and its current series at the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater captures that spirit. Raucous grandeur in Washington Ballet’s ‘Carmina Burana’ 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Gen. Carl Reddel, who has helped guide the project for more than a decade, the criticism ignores the core pieces of the memorial that represent Eisenhower's achievements. New images show Ike's DC memorial amid criticism 2012-02-28T20:34:09Z Presidential news conferences, which have been televised since Eisenhower was in office, enable the commander in chief to explain his approach to issues and crises under independent questioning. After 50 days as president, Biden still hasn’t given a news conference. Critics and allies wonder why. 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z Even this year, when new books and reprints about the 34th president abound and Eisenhower revisionism is on the rise, the subject remains below the radar, or at least without wide readership. Books of The Times: Evan Thomas’s ‘Ike’s Bluff’ Looks at Eisenhower 2012-09-24T22:29:05Z “We call them the Eisenhower years, the Kennedy years, the Johnson years,” said presidential historian Douglas Brinkley, who served as emcee for the night. When Truman is your grandpa: The complicated lives of presidential descendants 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Even after Truman dethrones him, MacArthur tries to sell President-elect Dwight Eisenhower on a plan to halt the communists by spreading nuclear-waste products across the Korean Peninsula. Even Headstrong Generals Must Answer to Someone 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Wearing a button-down shirt tucked into khaki shorts, his hair cropped militarily high and tight, he looks like a man who would be at home mowing a suburban lawn during the Eisenhower administration. Art Is Fleeting, but Red Grooms Is Forever 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z “Senator Moran’s ongoing support for the inclusion of Kansas has led him to conclude that this stance is blocking a memorial to President Eisenhower from completion,” Silverman said. Eisenhower Memorial panel moves foward with controversial Gehry design The Eisenhower Memorial Commission on Wednesday will review two approaches, including one that removes most of these elements. Eisenhower Memorial to consider plan that removes most of Frank Gehry’s designs Like “Happy Days,” it took place in Milwaukee in the Eisenhower era. Garry Marshall, feminist role model: He told stories about funny, feisty, independent women 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z The public may view this free event from areas along Memorial and Eisenhower avenues, but must be in place by 8:45 a.m. Tomb of the Unknown Soldier marks 100 years of honoring unidentified war dead 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z The proposed memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower got a boost of star power when the commission in charge of the project announced on Monday that the Hollywood heavyweight Tom Hanks would be joining its ranks. Tom Hanks Joins Panel Trying to Build Eisenhower Memorial 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z Best show: Maybe “Annie,” which tried out in the Eisenhower before triumphing in New York. Exit Max Woodward after four decades at the Kennedy Center 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Nixon distrusted the newly victorious Castro, whom he had correctly pegged as a communist, as did his boss, President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Change in U.S. policy toward Cuba dismantles an artifact of the Cold War 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z That was after Dwight D. Eisenhower had suffered a major heart attack, which left him recuperating in Denver for several weeks in 1955. The secret history of America’s ailing presidents and the doctors who covered up for them 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z The surreal, yellow post-storm sky over the Kennedy Center on Tuesday night, glimpsed at intermission, felt like an extension of the ballet atmosphere in the Eisenhower Theater. Polish National Ballet’s uplifting humanity 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Gehry outlined his changes to the design on Tuesday in a letter that was presented at a meeting of the Eisenhower Memorial Commission. ArtsBeat: In Response to Complaints, Gehry Changes Design for Eisenhower Memorial 2012-05-16T16:33:11Z This contrasted sharply with some severe outfits dating from just before the "Mad Men" era, when U.S. first lady Mamie Eisenhower helped set conservative fashion trends. Westwood highlights gala London fashion shows 2012-09-16T21:10:14Z Even the U.S. president himself was not immune; President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffered a very public heart attack in the 1950s. Put down the donut: When Americans became hooked on sugar instead of natural fat, obesity ballooned 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z When Stalin died, the Eisenhower Administration was terrified about what would happen. Q&A: Masha Gessen Sees a Bleak Future for Putin's Russia 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z Unlike other competitions, such as the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Eisenhower contest sought designers, not specific designs. Bob Dole leads the fight for Ike 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Since a federal commission was formed 11 years ago to create the memorial, the challenge has been to represent Eisenhower as both president and as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II. New images show Ike's DC memorial amid criticism 2012-02-28T20:34:09Z You can feel it in the supercharged air of the Eisenhower Theater, hear it in the ominous hum that suffuses the stage, see it in the guarded, anxious grimaces of the actors. The 1955 play topical as ever: ‘View From the Bridge’ revival storms into D.C. 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z There is just one Washington Ballet performance in the fall: a 40th anniversary celebration on Sept. 30 in the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater. From Washington Ballet Director Julie Kent, an all-star lineup in 2017 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z President Eisenhower had stocked his cabinet with captains of industry like Charles Wilson, brought in from General Motors to run the Defense Department. Three Blockbuster Novels From the 1950s, and Their Remarkable Afterlife 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z “Comey is a hero or a knave depending on your perspective,” Eisenhower told me. Perspective | Ready for the media’s Comey swoonfest? Nothing can stop it now. 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Looking to deliver an inspirational soul stirrer, he wore a medal-and-sash-bedecked Eisenhower jacket and used a barking cadence. 2010-01-09T04:08:00Z The imagery would show Eisenhower as president signing the Civil Rights Act of 1957 to advance equal rights for African-Americans. Key arts panel approves Eisenhower Memorial design 2013-07-18T17:54:42Z The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s. Under the surface of Eisenhower’s era 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Also intriguing is a brief exploration of what happened to the Little Rock Nine after federal troops dispatched by President Dwight D. Eisenhower escorted them to the school doors. | 'Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock': Daisy Bates of N.A.A.C.P. Recalled on PBS - Review 2012-02-01T23:11:16Z In an article from Australia’s The Age, President Eisenhower’s heart physician said trampolines could solve a nationwide problem: that Americans were overweight and too busy or lazy to exercise. Bounce so hard 2012-07-28T13:00:00Z Some have the potential to "cross over from memorabilia to American History," Ethan Wayne said, especially the personal correspondence between Wayne and several U.S. presidents including Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter and Dwight Eisenhower. John Wayne's "True Grit" eye-patch up for auction 2011-04-05T22:24:49Z Although the Eisenhowers and other critics have lost the design battle, the skirmish continues over funding. Bob Dole leads the fight for Ike 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z His concert production, running Feb. 6 to 10 in the Eisenhower Theater, will try to correct that impression, he said. Casting coup: Jessie Mueller to play Marian in upcoming ‘Music Man’ at Kennedy Center 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z The revised design for the planned Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial in Washington received a significant boost from the National Capital Planning Commission on Friday with a vote to approve the long-gestating project. Eisenhower Memorial gets final federal approval 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Étienne was sitting in a room where Charles de Gaulle once clinked glasses with President Eisenhower. Washington Society Steps Back Out 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z It feels somewhat miraculous, too, to have theater straight from Havana on the Eisenhower stage. Perspective | The world still comes to Washington’s stage 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z George Catlett Marshall is rightly regarded as among the greatest soldier-statesmen in American history, comparable in his achievements to Dwight Eisenhower and, perhaps, to George Washington himself. A Marshall Plan for China? It Existed, but Even Marshall Couldn’t Pull It Off 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z It will run from Dec. 2 to Jan. 10 in the Eisenhower Theater, its only stop before an anticipated opening on Broadway next spring. Steve and Edie (Martin and Brickell) bring a musical to D.C. 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Smoke in Plano, Texas, is known for its Eisenhower steak, which is cooked directly in the flames. Fire: the latest must-have ingredient in California restaurant kitchens 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z “Much of the rest of the meal was devoted to my explaining how Eisenhower had put the affair behind him and successfully run for president in 1952,” Mr. Smith reports. Review: ‘Bush,’ a Biography as Scathing Indictment 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z The accident happened on the ramp to Austin Boulevard from the Eisenhower Expressway, Illinois state police said. 1 dead in single-car accident 2012-02-05T12:12:00Z Bush a third of a century after Dwight D. Eisenhower selected Sherman Adams for the same role. It’s Primary Season in New Hampshire. Time to Go Skiing! 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z But Partridge omits other facts about Vietnam that run against certain American exceptionalist myths, like the Eisenhower administration’s scotching of elections to reunify South and North Vietnam in 1956. How Do We Tell a New Generation of Teenagers About the Vietnam War? 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z It is as if, he writes, “an acting major commanding a small force of guerrillas behind enemy lines had direct access to Eisenhower whenever he pleased in the second half of 1944.” Books Of the Times: Lawrence: Fresh Look at Warrior of Desert 2010-11-21T22:37:00Z But when Eisenhower came in, his Secretary of Agriculture was Ezra Taft Benson, who said to the farmers, “Get big or get out,” a heartless and a foolish thing to say. Going Home with Wendell Berry 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z General Eisenhower had issued strict directives forbidding such thefts. Returning the Spoils of World War II, Taken by Our Side 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z That dual focus was laid out in a law authorizing the monument, said Reddel, director of the Eisenhower Memorial Commission. New images show Ike's DC memorial amid criticism 2012-02-28T20:34:09Z In order to at least ameliorate the negative effects, Eisenhower reserved a suite on the eighth floor, the only floor below the Towers where the express elevator was able to stop. The dying world of “Grand Budapest Hotel” 2014-03-07T23:59:00Z Meanwhile, the food at the Polo Bar wouldn’t be out of place in the Eisenhower White House. A Ralph Lauren Restaurant, the Polo Bar, Comes to New York 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z It is important to remember that Stevenson’s populist opponent was Dwight Eisenhower, a former general whose rhetoric reads like Shakespeare in comparison to the childlike incoherence of the average Trump speech. Communicator-in-chief: Where Obama’s rhetoric illuminated a complex world, Trump’s deceptive dialect dumbs down 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z Presidents from Eisenhower to Trump caught the flak. Mark Russell, Piano-Playing Political Satirist, Dies at 90 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z On Saturday at the Eisenhower Theater — a space certainly better suited to Handel’s scale than the Kennedy Center Opera House — we got a lot of good, slightly overearnest singing. Review | Strong women take the lead in Washington National Opera’s ‘Alcina’ 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z The more important is William Hitchcock’s “The Age of Eisenhower”, which lays to rest the widespread notion that Eisenhower was a laissez-faire, golf-crazed president swept along by the times. Under the surface of Eisenhower’s era 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Teddy Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson — none survived more than a decade after their presidencies. What kind of ex-president will Barack Obama be? 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z It’s hard to imagine a meeting more uncomfortable than that of Mrs. Kennedy and Mrs. Eisenhower, though. When first ladies meet: An awkward post-election White House tradition 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z As Dwight Eisenhower’s vice presidential running mate in 1952, Nixon vowed to keep the cocker spaniel given to his family by a Texas supporter amid allegations he misused campaign contributions. Willow Biden joins long and varied line of White House pets 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z That gave the Eisenhower forces a working authority and they destructed Taft’s majority with that one vote, and it was over. Politics is a “blood sport”: Roger Stone on his CNN ban, the “real” Donald Trump and the billionaire’s scheme to lure delegates 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z With this program, titled “Mixed Masters,” which officially opened Thursday at the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater, the dancers, too, look revitalized and renewed. Review | Washington Ballet’s ‘Mixed Masters’ program marks growth of company 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z For example, President Dwight D. Eisenhower received a request from three teenage girls in 1958. Dear Mr. President: Kids have been sending letters to the White House for years 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Profiles of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Adlai Stevenson, Bayard Rustin, the Wright Brothers and others "whose careers intertwined with law, public policy and politics." Local books: sustainable cities, joyful living and a new graphic novel by Peter Bagge 2010-04-12T20:28:00Z In 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower said Churchill “comes closest to fulfilling the requirement of greatness of any individual that I have met in my lifetime”. Churchill 'in the year of Trump': Darkest Hour feeds America's love for Winston 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z The original design for the memorial to the 34th president and World War Two general included bas relief sculptures of Eisenhower working on legislation and speaking to troops on D-Day. Architect promises better design for Washington Eisenhower memorial 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z President Eisenhower was finishing his second term, and both Democrats and Republicans would be nominating new candidates. Think presidential debates are dull? Thank 1950s TV game shows 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Maybe the one about the time Robert Joffrey asked him over a pitcher of sangria in Greenwich Village to pray for former President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Chicago News Cooperative: A Vibrant Career at the Ballet, but With a Lens and Not Toeshoes 2011-10-09T04:45:15Z In “Eisenhower vs Warren” James Simon, a law professor and historian, focuses squarely on Brown. Under the surface of Eisenhower’s era 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z If he transferred two identical press images of President Eisenhower onto the surface of one work, he put them in the other as well, doubling the doubling that our age of mass reproduction had allowed. Seeing Double? So Do Great Artists. 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z There was a so-called vegan suit, rough cowhide belts intended to shred over time and get gnarly, and an Eisenhower jacket and shirting embroidered with silhouettes drawn from the artist Kristin Beaver’s “Sidekick Portraits.” Men’s Wear Flies Its Freak Flag 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Dwight D. Eisenhower installed a putting green in the White House and played over 800 games of golf while in office. Presidents' Day trivia: Surprising facts about each U.S. president 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Cosseted in your urban or suburban television room in Eisenhower America, how could you fail to be impressed by a feat like that? An Appraisal: Fess Parker, Davy Crockett and the TV Tie-In 2010-03-21T21:41:00Z Baier will focus on Eisenhower's farewell address, when he famously warned of a burgeoning "military-industrial complex," and on the transition to Kennedy, nearly 27 years his junior. Fox News host Bret Baier working on book about Eisenhower 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z In a meeting with CEOs in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, she is her father’s mouthpiece, hosting business leaders who want to support his plan to boost workforce training. When Dad’s the president — a look inside Ivanka Trump’s complicated world 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z The Memorial Commission is currently chaired by Republican Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas, the state where Eisenhower grew up. Tom Hanks lends a hand to Eisenhower Memorial in Washington 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z The NAACP, for example, helped her frame some of the questions she posed to Eisenhower. Review: The Reporter Ethel Payne in ‘Eye on the Struggle’ 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z The draft order praises the Washington building now known as the Eisenhower Executive Office Building as “beautiful and beloved.” MAGA War on Architectural Diversity Weaponizes Greek Columns 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z “We look forward to his dynamic contributions to the effort to honor Ike,” said Senator Pat Roberts, the chairman of the Eisenhower Memorial Commission, in a statement. Tom Hanks Joins Panel Trying to Build Eisenhower Memorial 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z The Dwight D. Eisenhower, a sleek green steam locomotive, was recently returned from a visit to Britain. 36 Hours in Green Bay, Wis. 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z In previous books, he cast a sympathetic glow on Nixon’s years in Congress and reframed Nixon’s relationship with Dwight D. Eisenhower, whom he served loyally but awkwardly as vice president. Did John F. Kennedy and the Democrats Steal the 1960 Election? 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z The cryptanalysis of the Enigma machines used by the Axis was “decisive to the Allied victory” — those are the words of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Eight areligious scientists who changed the world 2012-08-21T13:40:00Z But as more details trickled out, some members of the Eisenhower family began to object. New images show Ike's DC memorial amid criticism 2012-02-28T20:34:09Z This centers on a small, life-size statue of Eisenhower as a boy that the architect had planned to mediate between the two statue groupings. Review | The new Eisenhower Memorial is stunning, especially at night. But is this the last of the ‘great man’ memorials? 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z Even private fund-raising in place of public support may be difficult, say the critics, without the blessing of the Eisenhower family. Eisenhower Memorial Design Nears Approval, but Funding Remains Uncertain 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z An Eisenhower revival has been quietly brewing, with books about the famously uninteresting 34th president arriving at an increasingly steady clip. Janet Maslin’s 10 Favorite Books of 2012 2012-12-17T16:09:46Z Tens of thousands of employees were pursued under the specifics of Eisenhower’s notorious Executive Order 10450, which required the federal government to terminate anyone it considered a “sexual pervert.” In America’s past, a culture of animus against federal workers 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z The victorious Allied commander in Europe in the second world war, Eisenhower represented a new era—the first Republican elected president since Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression. Under the surface of Eisenhower’s era 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z I’m convinced, with very little evidence, that this is one of the few things in his life that Eisenhower ever regretted. ‘Demagogue’ Remembers a Vintage American Bully 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z “This is not being built for the grandchildren,” said Bob Dole, 91, the former senator from Kansas, who served under Eisenhower on the Italian front and is on the commission’s advisory board. Eisenhower Memorial Design Nears Approval, but Funding Remains Uncertain 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Plus, it appears that Gehry's revised plan for the Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, D.C., is one step closer to getting approved. Round-Up: Hong Kong protest art, an Iraqi photo agency, lots of Gehry 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z I only learned recently that Eisenhower was there, too. Q&A with cellist Yo-Yo Ma, who plays with Seattle Symphony Dec. 7 2010-12-02T00:43:00Z Eisenhower was an army general who served in World War II as Supreme Allied Commander before becoming the 34th president. Tom Hanks lends a hand to Eisenhower Memorial in Washington 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z While Obama has cut the number of inaugural balls lower than any president since Dwight Eisenhower was first sworn into office in 1953, the two celebrations will be elaborate. Top talent lined up for Obama's inaugural events 2013-01-11T12:43:12Z Webb and members of the Eisenhower Memorial Commission pledged to return to the CFA as early as next month to present a detailed description of the design’s statues, quotations, pathways and tree selection. Revised Gehry design of Eisenhower Memorial get okay from fine arts panel The Eisenhowers kept a farm residence in Gettysburg, which is now a tourist attraction called the Eisenhower National Historic Site. Museum’s attendance waned, so wax figures of presidents will be auctioned 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Through Saturday at the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater. $29-$99. 202-467-4600 or kennedy-center.org. Review | ‘Barber Shop Chronicles’ eavesdrops on men getting haircuts 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z She was also the founding president of the Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif. In 2008, the Ladies Professional Golf Association honored her, an avid golfer, for contributions to women’s golf. Dolores Hope, Bob Hope?s Widow, Dies at 102 2011-09-19T22:15:06Z Instead President Eisenhower appointed Joseph Swing, a former military general, to head the Immigration and Naturalization Service. The largest deportation campaign in US history is no match for Trump’s plan 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z In addition, the Eisenhower Memorial Commission must raise the money required for construction. Eisenhower Memorial to consider plan that removes most of Frank Gehry’s designs Even his misconceived cameo as Dwight Eisenhower in “The Butler” turned Ike into a weary, sad and misunderstood figure. “Boulevard”: In Robin Williams’ tormented final role, the beloved star still doesn’t know what he’s looking for 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z To judge from their fashions, hairstyles and settings, Gregory Ferrand’s paintings depict a realm where Dwight Eisenhower is still president. Review | In the galleries: The past invades the present in paintings by Gregory Ferrand 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z But the family said the focus on youth had diminished Eisenhower’s other accomplishments. ArtsBeat: Eisenhower Family Welcomes Some Proposed Memorial Changes, Rejects Others 2012-05-30T19:46:30Z “Ike’s Bluff” breaks the mold: it offers a colorful, anecdotal portrait that humanizes Dwight D. Eisenhower and casts new scrutiny on the old stereotypes about him. Janet Maslin’s 10 Favorite Books of 2012 2012-12-17T16:09:46Z And, as David Eisenhower famously said, they aren’t nearly as interesting as they think they are. Journalists in the age of Trump: Lose the smugness, keep the mission. 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z He also served in the Third Army, where, more than a decade earlier in the 1940s, Eisenhower was chief of staff to the commander. Review | The new Eisenhower Memorial is stunning, especially at night. But is this the last of the ‘great man’ memorials? 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z When Gehry's selection was approved, David Eisenhower praised the "integrity and excellence" of the selection process. New images show Ike's DC memorial amid criticism 2012-02-28T20:34:09Z This year is the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy Center’s opening in 1971, more than a decade after President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed legislation creating a National Cultural Center. Kennedy Center Taps Joni Mitchell and Berry Gordy for Awards 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z This “Sleeping Beauty” is a good fit for the Eisenhower Theater stage with its visual richness, its draped and layered costumes in subtle pastels and soaring, palatial sets from Salt Lake City’s Ballet West. Review | The Washington Ballet awakens with a lavish, triumphant ‘Sleeping Beauty’ 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z In this telling Eisenhower tried to duck the moral force of the Brown decision and was said to bitterly regret his appointment of Warren. Under the surface of Eisenhower’s era 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Family members took issue with certain aspects of the design, such as Mr. Gehry’s original sculpture of Eisenhower, known as Ike, as a young man sitting on a low stone wall. Eisenhower Memorial Design Nears Approval, but Funding Remains Uncertain 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z National tours of major plays are rare, and it was a treat to see Stephen Karam’s first-class drama of one family’s working-class angst in the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater. Perspective | Best of theater 2018: Distinguished visitors and hometown heroes 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Robin Williams is to star as President Dwight D Eisenhower in Lee Daniels' film The Butler – about a presidential house servant. Stephen Merchant flies solo and Simon Pegg crash lands into 'sexism' row 2012-07-24T15:24:39Z Betty Ford died Friday at the nearby Eisenhower Medical Center at the age 93. Betty Ford helped pave road to recovery for stars 2011-07-09T11:16:04Z Since this is a musical, and we're in the optimistic Eisenhower 1950s, all is happily resolved and the show coasts along on a glorious tide of melody. The Pajama Game – review 2013-04-30T18:00:36Z In the United States, President Dwight D. Eisenhower favors decolonization, while immigrants flooding into Britain from newly independent former colonies expect to be welcomed. | ?The Hour?: Espionage in the Government and Shenanigans at Work 2011-08-16T12:00:00Z This is where the resort’s longtime golf pro, Sam Snead, advised Dwight Eisenhower in 1956 to stick his backside out to improve his swing. The Greenbrier Resort Hopes to Preserve its Past. 2010-08-14T04:58:00Z At the same time “Reed” and its milky ilk tacitly reinforced the pervasive pressure to conform to a shallow, unrealistic societal model that dominated Eisenhower America. Television: A New Season of ?The Donna Reed Show? on DVD 2011-12-24T05:09:09Z Only a quarter of this book is devoted to Eisenhower’s presidency and beyond. 17 Great Books About American Presidents for Presidents’ Day Weekend 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Also involved: Churchill and Eisenhower, who had to sign off on the scheme, and Hitler himself, upon whose desk the fake plans ultimately landed. Books of The Times: ?Operation Mincemeat? by Ben Macintyre 2010-05-11T21:44:00Z As a result, two congressional appropriations committees declined to provide any of the $68 million that the Eisenhower Memorial Commission sought for construction for 2016. Bob Dole leads the fight for Ike 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z The economy boomed in the Eisenhower years, and Americans liked Ike and loved the Middle Way. This is how the GOP imploded: The real story behind the conservative crack-up, and the creation of Donald Trump 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z The two women shared the stage of the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater on Friday. At the Kennedy Center, moments of sunlight are glorious but fleeting in ‘The Day’ 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z Both sounded like artifacts from the Eisenhower era. Michael Feinstein and Pasadena Pops open their summer season 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z Tickets went on sale Tuesday at the Kennedy Center box office, starting at $300 for the live performance in the center's Opera House and $150 for a simulcast in the center's Eisenhower Theater. Longoria to host Latino inaugural salute to Obama 2013-01-08T23:01:04Z Stevenson lost the presidency — twice — to a stolid, steady and never less than spit-polished Republican named Dwight D. Eisenhower. Why does Bernie Sanders dress like that? Because he can. 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Board of Education decision; in 1957, Eisenhower would back up their decision, if reluctantly, by dispatching U.S. 'Eisenhower: The White House Years': a most accomplished president 2011-11-09T23:04:08Z "He was embraced by both Eisenhower and Khrushchev in the 1950s and the only musician to have a ticker-tape parade in Manhattan." American classical pianist Van Cliburn dies at age 78 2013-02-27T19:27:55Z Like “Family Circus,” the “Marmaduke” cartoon is the product of the Eisenhower era and is written with little irony or attitude. ?Marmaduke? Producer Is a Friend to Comic Animals 2010-05-28T22:31:00Z Changing the design, which had first represented the landscape of Eisenhower’s boyhood in Abilene, Kan., was crucial to convincing the family to support the memorial. Review | The new Eisenhower Memorial is stunning, especially at night. But is this the last of the ‘great man’ memorials? 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z And it cites other instances of the vagueness, opacity or silence that dim the Eisenhower legacy. Books of The Times: Evan Thomas’s ‘Ike’s Bluff’ Looks at Eisenhower 2012-09-24T22:29:05Z Is the Eisenhower Memorial the last of the ‘great man’ memorials? Perspective | What should a coronavirus memorial look like? This powerful statement on gun violence offers a model. 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z Some 60 years ago, Eisenhower warned us of the military-industrial complex — that nexus of hidden interests responsible for monetizing warfare. An Antidote to Digital Dehumanization? Live Theater. 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z Purse, in turn, found Eisenhower’s political appointee downright stiff. Spy chic: What made this couple fall in love with a (possible) former safe house? 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z In 2013, the president elevated Bruce Cole, a divisive and obstructionist figure who led the NEH during the George W. Bush administration, to the commission overseeing the Eisenhower Memorial, greatly complicating its completion. Library of Congress’s leader retires, finding a successor for its next chapter 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Recordings by Will Rogers, Jimmie Davis and President Dwight D. Eisenhower capture part of the political climate of their eras. Simon & Garfunkel song among those to be preserved 2013-03-21T09:52:07Z “The revised preliminary memorial design continues to employ a modern and innovative approach to commemorating President Eisenhower,” the report notes. Committee staff recommends Eisenhower Memorial plan continue The theater season begins in May with “Jesus Christ Superstar” and continues with six more productions in the Opera House and Eisenhower Theater through early September. Kennedy Center plans return to large-scale performances in January 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z The first lady warmly touched Mary Jean Eisenhower on the arm before shaking her hand and told the more than two dozen descendants of former presidents that it was “a very special day.” Amid uproar, Melania Trump placates as her husband provokes 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z The picture sends up and encapsulates the complacency of the conformist Eisenhower years. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? 2011-01-02T00:03:04Z Dwight Eisenhower thought this valley, the headwaters of the Colorado River, to be the best fly-fishing in the country. Letters: Crowd-Free Colorado 2011-06-17T18:55:00Z They had the theatrical savvy to develop their own inimitable concert presence, in the dance steps that Trujillo pumps up on the Eisenhower stage. Review | The Temptations musical hits D.C. before going to Broadway — and the dancing is dazzling 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z Or the way Dwight Eisenhower said, ‘Now that I’ve fought my battles, I can put my easel up outside.’ Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z The Eisenhower Memorial still faces challenges ahead in terms of congressional funding. Eisenhower Memorial gets final federal approval 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Frank acknowledges the big question raised by his fascinating narrative: whether Nixon might have averted the tragic missteps that ended his presidency if Eisenhower, who died in 1969, had been around to advise him. Jeffrey Frank’s ‘Ike & Dick’: 2 strange political bedfellows 2014-02-05T21:55:34Z As admiring of Eisenhower as it is, Newton's book is not a valentine. 'Eisenhower: The White House Years': a most accomplished president 2011-11-09T23:04:08Z Thus Dwight D. Eisenhower, shown in a popular clip declaiming against the military industrial complex, shares screen time with a pocket-size humanoid corpse under analysis by a Stanford University biologist. Movie Review: ‘Sirius,’ a Documentary Directed by Amardeep Kaleka 2013-05-30T23:23:20Z Other gems unearthed include a portrait painted by General Eisenhower of Field Marshall Montgomery, a man he reputedly heartily disliked. Britain's public paintings photographed in 10-year project 2012-09-29T15:45:31Z Until then, they say, the west was still in the grip of the sclerotic gerontocracy represented by Eisenhower and Khrushchev. October 1962: the month that modern culture was born 2012-09-29T22:12:23Z On numerous occasions Eisenhower toyed with the idea of dropping nuclear bombs to sway foreign conflicts. Under the surface of Eisenhower’s era 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Because it was such an industrial center and important union town, Paterson was a regular campaign stop for presidential candidates: everyone from Dwight Eisenhower to Ronald Reagan. In Undiscovered Paterson, Falls, Food and Fetty Wap 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z Following the vote, Eisenhower Memorial Commission Chairman Rocco Siciliano issued a statement celebrating Gehry’s ability to respond to “the many stakeholders in this process while still maintaining the power and integrity of his design.” Revised Gehry design of Eisenhower Memorial get okay from fine arts panel Mr. Gehry had outlined his changes earlier this month in a letter that was presented at a meeting of the Eisenhower Memorial Commission, which will make the final decision about the design. ArtsBeat: Eisenhower Family Welcomes Some Proposed Memorial Changes, Rejects Others 2012-05-30T19:46:30Z First, it made the Eisenhower Theater home to Ivo van Hove’s stunning revival of “A View From the Bridge.” The Kennedy Center sets an inviting table for ‘The Gabriels’ 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z They are believed to be among the largest group of Eisenhower letters to survive intact and could bring up to $120,000, said Joseph Maddalena, whose Profiles in History is auctioning the items. Monroe, Eisenhower letters to be auctioned 2013-03-29T07:04:09Z Spanning seven blocks and four time periods, it highlights such important developments as the ship wheel, the Wright brothers’ 1903 Flyer, and Eisenhower’s National Interstate and Defense Highways Act. A mini-tour of Washington sights you’ve probably never noticed 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z In the Eisenhower Theater — where on Wednesday the actors still seemed to be adjusting to the acoustic demands of the space — Ross makes for an appealing leading man. Review | Welcome home, ‘Dear Evan Hansen.’ You’re back where you belong. 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z In Home, I came to see this individual sin as overshadowed by the great collective sin of slavery, and the much later inability of the decent Eisenhower republicans to see what an outrage it was. Marilynne Robinson's Gilead 2010-04-12T13:00:00Z In recorded history, Stevenson was thrashed by D-day hero General Dwight Eisenhower, but, in this version, there hasn't been an allied victory to gild Ike's reputation and so he hasn't even run for the Republicans. Dominion by CJ Sansom – review 2012-12-06T06:30:01Z Eisenhower signed it into a law on June 14, Flag Day. The short pledge we recite has a long story 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z The plan, called Operation Cloudburst, made it all the way to President Eisenhower’s desk. The largest deportation campaign in US history is no match for Trump’s plan 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z Before a 1960 dinner Dwight D. Eisenhower praised de Gaulle as “a great friend to all of those who love human dignity,” even as France suspected the United States of undermining its interests in Africa. At state dinner, Biden and Macron stand ‘shoulder to shoulder’ 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Congress was wrestling with the first civil rights bill since Reconstruction, which President Dwight D. Eisenhower would sign in the fall. To shill a ‘Mockingbird’ 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z Presiding over this seeming utopia was Dwight Eisenhower. Under the surface of Eisenhower’s era 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Yes, the A-bomb brought a quick end to World War II, but Dwight Eisenhower and Robert Oppenheimer both believed Japan’s defeat was imminent without the bomb. Coming Close to Nuclear Holocaust 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Sherwin, the author of a book on the legacy of Hiroshima, argues that President Eisenhower’s threat to use “massive retaliation” in the 1950s also moved no needles, though it did ramp up the arms race. Coming Close to Nuclear Holocaust 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z The Corman film of “Shop” was, like many horror and sci-fi flicks of the Eisenhower years, a fable of the atomic age, playing to a nation’s fears of science run amok. ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ Review: Jonathan Groff Feeds the Beast 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z The “Three Sisters” at the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater this week is exactly what you imagine a major Russian staging of Anton Chekhov’s classic would be: stately, emotional and powered by three spectacularly passionate actresses. To Moscow! Kennedy Center showcases an expert Russian ‘Three Sisters.’ 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z Under Eisenhower and Nixon, who were the Republicans in the 40-year New Deal era, they did not attempt to overturn the New Deal. The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z In the 20th century, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower both appointed their sons to senior positions. A common thread among many Trump press staffers: They’re related to other Trump staffers 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z Then, he finds in Eisenhower a kind of partner. Sarah Colt on Why 2021 Is the Right Time for a Film About Billy Graham 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z A new event, the District of Comedy Festival, will be staged June 22-25 in the Concert Hall and Eisenhower and Terrace theaters. Coming soon to the Kennedy Center: More reasons to laugh? 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Still, Anderson’s critique raises the question: If not Eisenhower’s particular brand of containment, then what? When America’s Cold War Strategy Turned Corrupt 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Eisenhower’s career, especially as president, was far from unblemished. Review | The new Eisenhower Memorial is stunning, especially at night. But is this the last of the ‘great man’ memorials? 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z Rather, he emphasizes, they pursued their goals rationally — more Dwight Eisenhower than Don Quixote, as he puts it. World War II Seen by a Classicist, and Other New Books About Conflict 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z All lanes of the outbound Eisenhower Expressway at Austin were blocked this morning for more than two hours following a one-car rollover crash. Fatal crash closes outbound Eisenhower 2011-08-05T11:51:00Z The road to building a memorial in the nation’s capital is often long and messy, and the Eisenhower project is no exception. Bob Dole leads the fight for Ike 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z His victory made headlines in New York, but it took two days for the State Department to wire official congratulations and even longer for President Eisenhower to respond. Piano man 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z The Eisenhower Memorial Commission will seek preliminary approval of the modified Frank Gehry design — and only that design — from the National Capital Planning Commission at its monthly meeting Oct. Eisenhower Memorial panel moves foward with controversial Gehry design In 1957, for example, it was Dwight Eisenhower who was being accused of spending too much time on a golf course and not enough time surrounded by the scientific community. Experts agree: Trump has made Washington hostile to experts 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z Will the Eisenhower Memorial be the last of the “great man” markers? Perspective | Think of the debate as a public park. The president was polluting it. 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z More people apparently tuned into the birth of the Ricardos’ baby in January 1953 than watched Eisenhower’s inauguration. ‘Being the Ricardos’ Review: Kiss, Fight, Rinse, Repeat 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Mamie Eisenhower, a military wife enamored with the convenience foods popular in the 1950s, oversaw a thrifty White House kitchen, demanding that the staff make smart use of leftovers. Looking for a Trump Doctrine in the White House Kitchen 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Eisenhower was famously critical of the military-industrial complex, but the military-archival complex is a monument to American diligence. Was Truman or Ike the first president to ride in a helicopter? A lesson in the limits of journalism. 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z Did Dwight Eisenhower enjoy the taste of slightly metallic, burnt floppy pancakes? The Record Keepers’ Rave 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Unlike Jean Edward Smith’s heftier “Eisenhower in War and Peace,” a major biography that arrived this year, Mr. Thomas’s account does not span the full Eisenhower story. Books of The Times: Evan Thomas’s ‘Ike’s Bluff’ Looks at Eisenhower 2012-09-24T22:29:05Z The episode created an international stir, increasing pressure on Eisenhower to send federal troops to Little Rock. Theater Review: ‘Louis Armstrong,’ From Making Books Sing 2012-11-07T21:30:50Z If the project is approved by NCPC, the Eisenhower Commission may bring the revised design to the Commission of Fine Arts later this month. Committee staff recommends Eisenhower Memorial plan continue True, I’m usually seated in the orchestra section in the Opera House or the Eisenhower. Dance audiences are too caught up in the performance to be rude 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z This split between the Taft Republicans and the moderates became a war when moderates from New York and New England helped General Dwight D. Eisenhower win the 1952 Republican nomination. This is how the GOP imploded: The real story behind the conservative crack-up, and the creation of Donald Trump 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z Funeral services are set for Rasul "Rocky" Clark, who was paralyzed while playing football for Blue Island's Eisenhower High School in 2000 and later fought an unsuccessful battle to keep his health insurance. Funeral set for paralyzed ex-high school football player 2012-01-10T10:56:00Z This season the company is at its largest, with 46 dancers preparing for performances Oct. 21-23 at the center’s Eisenhower Theater. Suzanne Farrell Ballet to disband in 2017 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z But Finn trusts his gut, and this show felt right for the Eisenhower. Perspective | How the Kennedy Center’s theater chief sniffs out Broadway-worthy winners 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z The memorial to honor Dwight D. Eisenhower is receiving $1 million from the government of Taiwan, the Eisenhower Memorial Commission announced Tuesday. Taiwan Contributing $1 Million to Eisenhower Memorial in Washington 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Yet Eisenhower, deliberately if mysteriously, did much to diminish his own image. Books of The Times: Evan Thomas’s ‘Ike’s Bluff’ Looks at Eisenhower 2012-09-24T22:29:05Z The handsome, modest Como was the crooner king of variety TV, and once or twice in ’50s polls he topped President Eisenhower as America’s favorite person. Andy Williams: A Farewell Song for the "Moon River" Man 2012-09-26T22:34:50Z Is a memorial to Eisenhower the last of the ‘great man’ monuments? Review | Trump has tried to coopt the Army. This new museum shows why that won’t be easy. 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z The scene of an accident on the Eisenhower Expressway early today. Two seriously injured in Ike accident 2011-09-05T12:23:00Z Every American president since Eisenhower has taken part in the annual event. National Prayer Breakfast 2022: What is it? 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z That same year, he publicly urged President Dwight Eisenhower to send troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to protect Black students seeking to desegregate its public schools. Jackie Robinson was a radical 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z Reaching 20,000 performances has made him philosophical about a little musical he put on when Dwight D. Eisenhower was still president. 'The Fantasticks' reaches mind-boggling milestone 2013-09-12T13:15:14Z Nearby was a document signed by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower on May 7, 1945, from the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, saying that the mission “was fulfilled.” Cultured Traveler: In Europe, Five Libraries That Offer Respite From the Crowds 2011-07-29T19:36:57Z Susan Eisenhower, the 34th president's granddaughter, said Tuesday that the new images don't change how the family feels. New images show Ike's DC memorial amid criticism 2012-02-28T20:34:09Z “Without a doubt the worst thing that has ever been on the Eisenhower stage. I read the script and thought, ‘These people are out of their minds.’ Exit Max Woodward after four decades at the Kennedy Center 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z To the many who stopped to say hello, Hunt introduced them to a companion: “Have you met David Eisenhower?” he said by way of introducing the 34th president’s grandson and namesake of Camp David. ‘This is preposterous,’ says the media about the media’s convention overkill 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z A sculpture of a young Eisenhower and images of Kansas farmland celebrated his humble beginnings. With groundbreaking, elusive Eisenhower Memorial moves from dream to reality 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z Yet Eisenhower avoided war with the Soviet Union and handled the crisis over the Suez Canal, in 1956, “with assurance and wisdom”. Under the surface of Eisenhower’s era 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z In 1962 a poll of historians placed Eisenhower 20th in the all-time rankings; last year, a similar poll put him fifth. Under the surface of Eisenhower’s era 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z A man was killed in a one-car rollover crash on the outbound Eisenhower early this morning that blocked all lanes of traffic. Fatal crash closes outbound Eisenhower 2011-08-05T11:51:00Z As is often the case, he exposed his own historical illiteracy by omitting that in conjunction with the deportation debacle, Eisenhower also authorized the broad and liberal issuance of guest worker visas for Mexicans. The case for open borders 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z |
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