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Bringing the Eisenhower Era to Life
Explore The Foundation’s collection of documents, photographs, and artifacts that bring Dwight D. Eisenhower’s life, leadership, and legacy into clear historical focus.
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Memorandum Regarding the Creation of the Civil Rights Commission (1957)
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Bureau of the Budget Memorandum Recommending Approval of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1959
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Memorandum on the Organization of U.S. Space Activities & NASA (1959)
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Eisenhower Administration Debates Civilian and Military Control of U.S. Space Programs Before the Creation of NASA (1958)
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Memorandum for the Record, Meeting of Negro Leaders with the President June 23, 1958
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Eisenhower Meets with Martin Luther King Jr. and Other Black Leaders to Discuss Civil Rights and Voting Rights (1958)
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Eisenhower and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson Reach Agreement on Space Agency and Defense Reorganization Legislation (1958)
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White House Aide Rocco Siciliano Reports on Black Leaders’ Positive Reaction to Their Civil Rights Meeting with Eisenhower (1958)
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White House Advisers Recommend That Eisenhower Publicly Confront Senator Joseph McCarthy (1953)
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Appeal to Eisenhower to Commute the Rosenbergs’ Death Sentences (1953)
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Eisenhower Outlines His Strategy for Operation Overlord and Balancing the Normandy and Italian Campaigns (1944)
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General George C. Marshall Advises Eisenhower on Allied Mediterranean Strategy and Protecting Forces for Operation Overlord (1944)
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National Security Council Reviews Soviet Pressure on Afghanistan and Growing Cold War Competition in the Region (1955)
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