John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower was born on August 3, 1922 in Denver, Colorado. Parents were Dwight D. Eisenhower and Mamie Doud Eisenhower. Early years, through eighth grade, Washington D.C., high school at Brent, Baguio, in the Philippine Islands; graduated U.S. Military Academy, West Point, June 6, 1944. European Theater (First U.S. Army) World War II, visiting Buchenwald just after liberation. Army of Occupation, Germany and Austria. Served in 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry, 3rd Infantry Division during the Korean War, 1952. Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2 (Intelligence), 3rd Division, 1952-53; Army General Staff, 1957-59; White House Staff from October 1958 to January 1961; Brigadier General, AUS, retired. U.S. Ambassador to Belgium from April, 1969 to October, 1971. Publications: THE BITTER WOODS, 1969, listed as a best seller in Publisher's Weekly, The New York Times and TIME; a memoir, STRICTLY PERSONAL, published on May 17, 1974; Edited LETTERS TO MAMIE, 1977; authored ALLIES: PEARL HARBOR TO D-DAY, May 1982; SO FAR FROM GOD, March, 1989, about the war between the U.S. and Mexico, 1846-48; INTERVENTION! THE UNITED STATES AND THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION, 1913-1917, November 1993; AGENT OF DESTINY: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF GENERAL WINFIELD SCOTT, 1997; YANKS, 2001; and GENERAL IKE - A PERSONAL REMINISCENCE, 2003. John lived with wife, Joanne Thompson Eisenhower, in rural Maryland until his death December 21, 2013.