Showing posts with label Dwight D. Eisenhower. Show all posts
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Saturday, December 24, 2011

Stephen E. Ambrose - American historian and biographer

Stephen E. Ambrose
 Stephen Edward Ambrose was famous American historian andbiographer of U.S. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He was along time professor of history at the University of New Orleans and the authorof several best selling volumes of American popular history. Beginning late inhis life and continuing after his death, however, proof and reports havecontinued to surface documenting long time patterns of plagiarism,falsification, and inaccuracy in many of his published writings and other work.In reaction to one of the early reports, Ambrose said he was not "outthere stealing other people's writings."

In 1998, he got the National Humanities Medal. In 2000,Ambrose got the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service,the top honorary award the Department of Defense offers to civilians. In 2001,he was awarded the Theodore Roosevelt Medal for illustrious Service from theTheodore Roosevelt Association. Ambrose won an Emmy as one of the producer forthe mini-series Band of Brothers. Ambrose also got the George Marshall Award,the Abraham Lincoln Literary Award, and the Bob Hope Award from theCongressional Medal of Honor Society, and the Will Rogers Memorial Award.
Stephen E. Ambrose


Date Of Birth
January 10, 1936

Place Of Birth
Lovington, Illinois, U.S.

Occupation
Historian, Author

Date Of Died
October 13, 2002

Place Of Died
Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, U.S.


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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was a five star general in the United States Army and served as 34th President of the United States. During Second World War, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, with liability for planning and supervising the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45, from the Western Front. In 1951, he became the first ultimate commander of NATO. He won by a landslide, defeating Democrat Adlai Stevenson and finish two decades of the New Deal Coalition holding the White House. Eisenhower fulfilled negotiations with China to end the Korean War. He maintained force on the Soviet Union during the Cold War, gave priority to inexpensive nuclear weapons and reduced the other forces to save money. Historians typically rank Eisenhower among the ten best U.S. presidents.

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Born

October 14, 1890

Birth Place

Denison, Texas, U.S.A

Birth name

David Dwight Eisenhower

Political party

Republican

Spouse(s)

Mamie Doud Eisenhower

Occupation

Soldier

Religion

Presbyterian Church

Died

March 28, 1969

Death Place

Washington, D.C., U.S.A