Hi everybody. Today, my mommy is going to talk about Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Thank you, Noah, for introducing Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th President of the United States.

After 20 consecutive years, with a Democrat in the White House, Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower

won the election of 1952 by a landslide.

Dwight David Eisenhower was the last president born in the 1800s and was the third of seven sons his parents would have. He graduated from the U.S. Military

Academy at West Point and later served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces during the

second half of World War II. Dwight D. Eisenhower was so immensely popular after World War II that both the Republicans and Democrats were trying to get him to run for president at the head of their parties.

When reporters asked him about his thoughts about running for president, Eisenhower said, I'm a soldier, and I'm positive no one

thinks of me as a politician. In the strongest language you can command, you can state that I have

no political ambitions at all. Nobody, least of all, Dwight D. Eisenhower, could have anticipated at the time that just a few short years later, Eisenhower would become president.

Dwight D. Eisenhower finally accepted his calling and decided to run as a Republican with Richard M. Nixon as his running mate.

His campaign promise was to end the Korean War, which was welcome news to many Americans who saw the war as unnecessary. The sitting

president at the time was Harry S. Truman, and you may remember from last week's episode that the S in his name didn't stand for

anything. In contrast, the D. and Dwight D. Eisenhower did stand for something, his middle name

David. It wasn't his first, middle, or last name that many people prefer to call him, but rather his nickname, Ike.

He defeated Adelae Stevenson Handley in 1952 and then by an even wider margin in 1956.

Despite being a war hero, President Eisenhower took a very non-militaristic approach to the presidency.

He said, dollars and guns are no substitute for brains and willpower.

As promised, he ended the Korean War within six months of taking office.

When the Vietnam War broke out, he also didn't want to get involved, although many of his

advisors urged him to send American troops for fear that communism would spread,

and Vietnam fell to communism.

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