Dwight Eisenhower: War Hero to President | 5-Minute Videos
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- As the Korean War intensified, war-weary Americans turned to a new leader, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the hero of World War II, to bring them peace. “Ike,” as he was known to everyone, didn’t disappoint them.
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The Allies defeated the Axis powers-Germany and Japan-in World War II in no small part because of America’s brilliant generals-men like George Marshall, George Patton, Douglas MacArthur, Omar Bradley, and Dwight Eisenhower.
Of that illustrious group, only one-Eisenhower-reached America's highest office, serving as the 34th president of the United States.
What made him stand out among his contemporaries?
Dwight David Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1890. Young Dwight, or “Ike” as he came to be known to everyone, was the third of seven children-all boys.
Of his childhood, the future president would later say, “We were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it...”
Looking for a ticket out of his hometown of Abilene, Kansas, Ike entered the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1911. He did little to distinguish himself academically, focusing more on football than his studies.
Upon graduating as a second lieutenant, he was posted to Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas. There, he met the petite, vivacious, and charming Mamie Doud. The daughter of a prosperous businessman, Mamie was used to cooks and servants but gave it all up for the spartan life of a military spouse when she married Ike in 1916. She would spend the next two decades moving from one dreary Army base to the next. But as long as she was with her husband, she was happy. “Ike was my career,” she said years later.
When America entered World War I in 1917, Eisenhower, to his frustration, was ordered to remain stateside to train others for combat. It was a bitter blow, and it set the pattern of Eisenhower’s life for twenty years. As others rose to senior positions, his career stalled. He seemed destined to serve great men, not to be one.
From 1935 to 1939, Eisenhower worked as Douglas MacArthur’s top aide in the Philippines, where they helped train the local army, giving the young man from Abilene his first real taste of international politics.
MacArthur was an extremely difficult personality who almost drove Ike to his wit’s end.
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My late Father-In-Law , a career Air Force soldier, bore a striking resemblance to Ike. He also had some of the same characteristics, gravity, sincerity and hard work. He passed in 2018 at the age of 90.
I like Ike
This goes hard hard
I was born in 71. My dad was born in 60 years before me. I'll never forget what he to me. IKE was one of the best presidents we had.
I shudder to imagine the kind of black-hearted hatred that will fill these comments when we get to the modern Presidents. But 50 years from now we will probably look on them with rose-colored glasses too.
it depends on which side wins this current conflict we’re in
Not a chance. Obama and Biden and gang will be exposed and there will be no rose coloring then.
Idk why anyone would leave bad comments, he was a truly great presiden and leader..we need presidents like Eisenhower to lead us in this era
Hahaha this evil platform deleted my comment about evil Joe and evil Barry.
@@AnnoyedGrunt We tend to look at both Republicans and Democrats of old in comparatively favorable light compared to modern Presidents. Take FDR. He doubled the length of the Great Depression in America, passed The Smith Act, and instituted price controls on farmers to keep them from selling cheap food when people around the country were starving. If someone tried to pull that today, Republicans would be frothing at the mouth.
You could say we ignore his faults because he helped defeat a couple of evil empires in WWII, but then I suspect in a few more decades George W. Bush will just be remembered as the guy who saved all those people in Africa from AIDS and Malaria.
Laura Eisenhower one of his living descendants is his great granddaughter ❤
Politician with stars to politician without stars.
Patton died at the end of the war, so we have no idea what would have happened. Patton was a good general, but like MacArthur he was a bit of a prima Donna
MacArthur was no Prima Donna, that’s just dumb.
Patton was killed* at the end of the war.
@@LoganMcBride325 On December 9, 1945, Patton was returning from a pheasant hunt with his chief of staff, Major General Hobart “Hap” Gay. Sergeant Mims, his regular driver, was in the hospital, and a substitute was at the wheel. They were traveling at about thirty-five miles per hour when an army truck turned from a side road into their path. In the glancing collision, Patton was thrown against the roof and fell forward into the glass partition behind the driver’s seat. His neck was broken.
Paralyzed from the neck down, he was taken to a hospital in Heidelberg. “This is a helluva way to die,” Patton told Gay. In the hospital, Patton’s mood alternated between profanity-laced anger and black humor. “If there’s any doubt in any of your Goddamn minds that I’m going to be paralyzed for the rest of my life, let’s cut out all this horse-shit right now and let me die,” Patton lashed out.The cause of death was pulmonary edema and congestive heart failure.
Among the generals you mentioned Ike probably had the most level-headed personality and administrative mindset. All great generals for different reasons. For today in the US, Ike's farewell address in 1960 still rings true for the deep state, science versus politics, military industrial complex.
I LIKE IKE
One of the best presidents ever.
I think God spent a long time forming him into the man to lead America in Europe.
"Let's get bizzay!" -Dwight Eisenhower
Wow, at first glance I thought that thumbnail was a picture of Douglas Murray!
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Mccarthur was a great general, stop knocking him.
He was an excellent general, a superb tactician, but hard to associate with. He was ego centric and unable to hear anyone but himself. He was great as a warrior and leader for war. He could run a government if he had FULL power, like he did in Japan, but he was not suited for politics, because he wasn't willing to talk or listen to anyone. There's a great biography on YT about him.
He was too good for the establishment. That's why I believe he was murdered via the traffic collision on base. He just wouldn't be a politician. He was born to be a warrior.
I still like Ike
Why cant our generation have presidents like our grandparents had when they were young
I think nostalgia is clouding your judgement. Take FDR. He was more of a socialist than any other President in history. He imposed price controls on farmers when people were starving, passed The Smith Act (which I'm sure most conservatives would consider a flagrant violation of the First Amendment if it happened today), and probably doubled the length of the Great Depression in the US (because the rest of the world recovered faster). Not to mention he pissed off the Japanese with his oil sanctions, leading us into WWII. Now granted, you can say US involvement in WWII was a boon for humanity, but how do people today react when a President sacrifices American lives to play hero to the world?
When we get into the modern Presidents in these videos, you'll see black-hearted hatred in the comments that would make Satan himself say "Chill, bro." But 50 years from now we'll probably look at George W. Bush and Bill Clinton with the same rose-colored glasses.
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This is not what comments are for.
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We’ve completely lost the concept of building a boy into a man, with morals and a sense of duty or sacrificing for the greater good. You stop teaching history and you lose the purpose of the hero, his character, flaws, potential and strengths. Young men look up to athletes & rappers (criminals, drug users, wife beaters, materialistic, & uneducated, at their worst).
That was a time when the Republican almost became extinct if Ike haven’t run for President as a Republican.
One of the best Presidents. He was loved by both parties. My top Presidents:
1. Abraham Lincoln
2. Franklin D Roosevelt
3. Dwight Eisenhower
4. Lyndon B Johnson
5. Harry Truman
6. Bill Clinton
7. Ronald Reagan
8. JFK
9. Barack Obama
10. George HW Bush
Worst finish i have ever seen for Washington
@@saints146 Apparently Washington was a bad general
You suffer from “presentism”. Washington and Adams and Jefferson and Madison are missing.
Where is Washington? Did he not make the list?
Not sure what Obama accomplished. His signature victory was ObamaCare, which hasn't worked too well. Objectively, I think the rest of your list is good.
Did great things in WWII, but I hesitate to call him a great president. Ike gave us the Warren Court.
First, Eisenhower desegregated the District of Columbia. When he took office in 1953, an African-American visitor to downtown Washington could not rent a hotel room, buy a meal, attend a movie or easily find a drink of water or a restroom outside the city’s black neighborhoods. On the president’s orders, the Justice Department successfully argued the desegregation of D.C. restaurants before the Supreme Court; one African-American newspaper exuberantly declared, “Eat anywhere!” Eisenhower enlisted Hollywood moguls to pressure movie theaters to desegregate, and he and the first lady refused to attend segregated activities in the city. By the end of his first year, segregation of public facilities had virtually ended. Harry Truman’s 1948 executive order to desegregate the armed forces had been only feebly enforced, but Eisenhower fully implemented it. By October 30, 1954, not a single segregated combat unit remained. After two years in the Oval Office, Ike had desegregated the Veterans Administration and military bases in the South, including federally controlled schools for military dependents-prior to the Supreme Court’s landmark May 1954 Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation decision.
In 1955, Eisenhower named E. Frederic Morrow as the first African-American executive assistant in the White House. No previous president had ever made such an appointment. He made other strong pro-desegregation appointments, including Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr., a key civil rights adviser who was instrumental in desegregating the nation’s capital.
Eisenhower established a presidential committee to negotiate nondiscrimination agreements with government contractors and appointed a second committee to end discrimination in government departments and agencies. While these committees had no statutory authority, Eisenhower invested them with more executive authority than the committees instituted by any previous president; for example, he tapped Vice President Richard Nixon to chair the contracts committee.
Eisenhower proposed, fought for and signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957-the first civil rights legislation in 82 years. The president presented the comprehensive bill in his 1957 State of the Union address. Contrary to the popular myth that Senate majority leader Lyndon B. Johnson’s backroom dealing saved the Civil Rights Act from defeat, the bill was not Johnson’s triumph; it was Eisenhower’s. Johnson led Southern senators in a fight against a provision that empowered the attorney general to sue in federal court to protect a broad range of civil rights, including school desegregation.
He forced Eisenhower to capitulate or face the prospect of passing no bill at all. Johnson and the Southerners also added an amendment guaranteeing jury trials for civil rights violators, a requirement that, given all-white juries in the South, made conviction unlikely. Ike pushed back and won a compromise that softened the amendment. Thanks to Eisenhower’s leadership, 37 Senate Republicans supported the final version of the 1957 bill, but the “Master of the Senate,” Johnson, could muster only 27 Democratic votes.
The legislation established the Civil Rights Commission and the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, which have publicized and prosecuted civil rights violations ever since. Eisenhower had broken the Southern stranglehold on civil rights legislation and, with passage of a voting rights act in 1960, set the stage for the groundbreaking legislation of 1964-65.
Eisenhower’s judicial appointments constituted his greatest contribution to African-American civil rights. On September 30, 1953, Eisenhower selected California Governor Earl Warren-a man he knew was liberal on race-to replace Fred Vinson, who had died unexpectedly, as chief justice of the United States.
With Congress in adjournment until January, the president made a recess appointment, freeing Warren to work immediately on the Brown school desegregation case, which the Supreme Court would hear in its December 1953 session. On May 17, 1954, Warren announced the court’s unanimous decision, striking down its 1896 separate-but-equal ruling, Plessy v. Ferguson. A year later, in Brown II, the Eisenhower administration’s Justice Department-in a brief Ike personally edited-proposed that school districts be required to submit desegregation plans within 90 days. When the first Brown ruling was announced, Eisenhower immediately ordered the District of Columbia commissioners to develop a desegregation plan for the city’s schools; that was accomplished within a week. In a press conference, Eisenhower made a soldierly pledge to enforce the decision without commenting on the merits of the case-a move that many have misinterpreted as disagreement with the ruling. But in addition to Earl Warren, Ike appointed to the Supreme Court four stalwart supporters of desegregation: John Marshall Harlan II, William Brennan, Charles Evans Whittaker and Potter Stewart.
Eisenhower also refused to appoint known segregationists to the lower federal courts. In an attempt to depoliticize the appointment process, the president and Attorney General Brownell moved it from the White House to the Justice Department and instituted American Bar Association assessment of potential nominees. When Brownell left office in 1957, Eisenhower continued to appoint pro-desegregation judges in the South. DEMOCRAT President John F. Kennedy, in contrast, returned to appointing segregationists. As a result, the civil rights movement migrated from the courts to the streets.
On September 24, 1957, Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne Division into Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce a federal court order by one of his own appointees to desegregate Central High School. DEMOCRAT Governor Orval Faubus had deployed the Arkansas National Guard to bar nine black students from attending the school. After meeting with the president and agreeing to change the orders of the Guard to protect the black students, Faubus instead withdrew the troops, leaving the students at the mercy of the mob. That is when Eisenhower acted. In a televised address to the nation on the night of the 24th, Eisenhower vowed, “The president and the executive branch of government will support and ensure the carrying out of the decisions of the federal courts, even, when necessary, with all the means at the president’s command.”
For decades, historians have assumed, thanks to the important legislation passed in 1964-65, that DEMOCRATS John F. Kennedy and Lyndon V Johnson were the era’s great civil rights leaders and that Eisenhower failed to “speak out” on the issue. But Ike’s record speaks for itself. JFK and LBJ did not commit to the cause until 1963, when horrific violence in the South compelled them to. It is time, finally, to bury the myth that Ike did nothing on civil rights. In the 1950s, Dwight Eisenhower was more progressive in advancing African-American civil rights than Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy or Lyndon Johnson.
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There's no such a thing as war hero.
Interesting thought. I believe there can be such a thing. Like a general who wins a lot of battles to liberate occupied lands. Or a Russian girl in Stalingrad, who successfully stops Nazis. Or fighter pilots who crash is the wild sea, and swim some miles to get on the beach. Resistance fighters. And I can go on for a while.
@@CanalPSG Extremely interesting,I genuinely believe only people with less melanin can be war heroes.
If today the united states' invaded Zambia,I believe all the Zambians Fighting would be "insurgents" rebels or even ts.
@@CanalPSG Yeah, I get the meaning. There's nothing to glory in war, but people have done heroic actions during a war. Their bravery to sacrifice for the sake of others is to be commended, regardless of the motives of the war.
@@travisfields157 Thanks. You said it better than that I could.
Eisenhower in World War II
Eisenhower returned soon after Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland sparked the outbreak of World War II in Europe. In September 1941, he received his first general’s star with a promotion to brigadier general. After Japan attacked Pearl Harbor that December, U.S. Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall called Eisenhower to Washington, D.C. to work as a planning officer. Beginning in November 1942, Eisenhower headed Operation Torch, the successful Allied invasion of North Africa. He then directed the amphibious invasion of Sicily and the Italian mainland in 1943 that led to the fall of Rome in June 1944.
Made a full general in early 1943, Eisenhower was appointed supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in December of that year and given the responsibility of spearheading the planned Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe. On D-Day (June 6, 1944), more than 150,000 Allied forces crossed the English Channel and stormed the beaches of Normandy; the invasion led to the liberation of Paris on August 25 and turned the tide of the war in Europe decisively in the Allied direction. Having risen from lieutenant colonel in the Philippines to supreme commander of the victorious forces in Europe in only five years, Eisenhower returned home to a hero’s welcome in 1945 to serve as chief of staff of the U.S. Army.
Eisenhower was not a hero. A great general and a decent president, but not a hero.
Sending the national guard to make sure that black children could go to school makes him a hero to me.
your assertion lacks and facts, evidence of hard data - - - As the Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in the European theater, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower is remembered as one of the most masterful military figures in history, the man behind the bold and superbly-executed Normandy invasion in June 1944 that led to Nazi Germany’s defeat less than a year later.
We know for sure they're not talking about Trump! His little feet hurt too much to serve!
more like WAR CRIMINAL!
"more like" ya got no facts again, CRT rider - - - Eisenhower Molds Army Into Cohesive Fighting Unit
In addition, Eisenhower set a tougher standard for all of his officers. According to Ambrose, Eisenhower told Patton that he expected him to be “perfectly cold-blooded” about getting rid of anyone whose ability he doubted.
“He adopted a much more ruthless, bottom-line attitude in relation to subordinate commanders,” John C. McManus, a Curators’ Distinguished Professor of U.S. military history at the Missouri University of Science and Technology and author of several books on World War II, says. “While he seldom personally fired them, he made it known that anyone who did not perform was liable to be cashiered.”
Eisenhower instilled in his forces the concept of fighting as one unit, rather than as disjointed pieces. “Before Kasserine Pass, the U.S. Army was a group of regiments strung across the Tunisian desert,” Citino says. “After that, they began to fight as concentrated, unified divisions with combined arms-heavy firepower, armor, and infantry all working together.”
Eisenhower’s new approach quickly bore fruit a month later in the battle of El Guettar, which Barron noted was “the U.S. Army’s first major tactical victory against the Wehrmacht.”
The Allied forces ultimately were victorious in North Africa, and went on to take Sicily and Italy as well. About a year and a half after the near-catastrophe at Kasserine Pass, Citino says, “it’s the same U.S. Army that’s landing in Normandy, and it’s pretty damn good there.
"If there’s one individual responsible for that turnaround more than any other, it’s Eisenhower.”
@@jb-vb8un the allied forces won the war by mass murdering civilians in the most horrible ways possible!
what the allied forces did to japanese and german civlians makes any other war crime seem like a joke compared!