Records of the U.S. Information Agency. 1900 - 2003. Production Library Audio Recordings. 1999 - 2005. GENERAL DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER DAY

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Records of the U.S. Information Agency. 1900 - 2003. Production Library Audio Recordings. 1999 - 2005. GENERAL DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER DAY

1945

BROADCAST SOUND RECORDING: New York welcomes Gen. Eisenhower on hisreturn to United States. At City Hall, Mayor La Guardia presents him withgold medal and with honorary New York City citizenship. Eisenhower makesshort speech.

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Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969

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Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) was leader of the Allied forces in Europe in World War II, commander of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), and the thirty-fourth president of the United States, from January 20, 1953, to January 20, 1961. Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas, the third son of David Jacob Eisenhower, a railroad worker, and Ida Elizabeth Stover. In 1891, the family moved to Abilene, Kansas, where David accepted a job at a local creamery run by ...

La Guardia, Fiorello H. (Fiorello Henry), 1882-1947

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