Tag: Dwight Eisenhower

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Thanksgiving Without Cranberries? For Many Americans In 1959, It Happened

Cranberry sauce is a classic Thanksgiving side dish, but not in 1959, thanks to what History.com has called the Great Cranberry Scare.

Dwight D Eisenhower is president #32 in my gravesites project!

at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library in Abilene, Kansas.

President Eisenhower Joins The Ramones

What if the 34th president of the United States became a Ramone? I think he'd fit right in, myself:

Ike is a Highway: The Eisenhower Statue in Alexandria, Va

If you want to like Ike while in the DC area, take the Metro Yellow Line down to King Street station and walk a half mile or so through Alexandria to Eisenhower Circle, built to officially mark the start of the Eisenhower national expressway system.

Dwight Eisenhower’s Tomb

The Eisenhower Library campus includes a church-shaped building called the Place of Meditation. The name of the building isn't figurative: there's an actual chapel inside the Eisenhower tomb.