Show MEET THE WIN ERS Eisenhower and Nixon The New High Command Few men in American history have hav stepped from one of the highest st military posts posta to the highest civil post their country could offer them Still SUll fewer start out in po politics politic right at the top And too few men lead an army of men to victory In a a grant t and lv world war wu Such Such It is the man man wh who TU Tuesday da 1 was elected by the American voters yoUr as 81 their President Dwight David Eisenhower Eisenhower stands five feet teet ten Inches taU tall And end usually weighs weigh In at about IAO pounds On October 14 14 he ke was 62 years ears old I The original Eisenhower arrived ar cur rived In America In the early part of the century and settled as part of If a community of ot Mennon Mention Ites in Pennsylvania In 1878 came the great trek to Kansas The Eis Eta settled In Abilene where D David and Ida EISenhower were married Dwight David was the third old est eat of six sons ons born to do David and Ida The fourth oldest Roy a pharmacist died In 1942 Arthur the oldest Is fa a Kansas City banker Edgar Is senior partner In the Ta coma coma oma Washington law firm of Eta Els Hunter lunter and Ramadell Earl Is I an electrical engineer and Milton lItton the youngest and second li best st known of ot the lot Is president of Dt Pennsylvania state te university Originally Eisenhower r w was a a 8 christened David Dwight but but his mother turned it around b because cause she disliked hearing him called the Dave She did not reckon with the h nickname Ike which all aU of th the Eisenhower brothers bore at atone one brie time or another and which stuck to her third born Many reasons have been mentioned men menn for his choice of a military 1 w a 4 y PRESIDENT EISENHOWER career It Is possible that even EIsenhower himself Is not sure lure He may have been motivated by nothing nothing noth ing trig more than the fact that he would receive a college education which neither he nor his father fathel could afford at government ex p pense pense nse and at the same time see some come of ot the world outside the nat I confining tag sphere of ot Abilene What put the he idea In hIs head originally was being told by a ot the of of the latter's latter Intention of 01 going to Annapolis Eisenhower liked the Idea and began to study for the entrance examination When the examinations examination were graded he stood second on the list and was therefore re eligible t for r either elther Annapolis An or West Point But In the meantime he had pass passed d hi his birthday and was no longer eligible for the naval academy Through Senator Bristow of t Kansas Kana he be ob- ob f his bis s appointment to the United Unit Unit- ed States military academy In West Point as In his previous school hool wor work he be was less Interested 1 ln n academic work than In N sports ports However his scholastic average forthe for forthe the four years put him in the top third of ot his class He also had the makings makings' of a star football player 1 unto a knee injury disqualified hint him for tor football forever On June 12 12 1913 1915 he be was adu and commissioned a second lieutenant EIsenhower Eisenhower's first assignment ment was in San Antonio Texas where th the following October be met I Mamie Mamle Geneva Doud They were married the following July of 1916 The Eisenhower's first son lon Doud died when he tie was three but a sec end son John Doud was born and If Ij now an army major When he took his entrance examination for tor West Point John had the highest scorn score ever made b by a Kansas ap ape J Although he very much wanted ip to get overseas during World War WarI WarL I L I. Eisenhower never got outside the United States Instead he was put iF in command of a tank training 5 school hool an unusual assignment since the school had no tanks tanka Following the he war be he settled I down to tha monotony of peace peace- ne life ute Eisenhower Eisenhower baa bad many mal varied tours of of- duty but none of them colorful at least from his view viewS viewpoint point point He lie spent pent Iwo Jwo and ami a half aU r h in the Uie Panama Canal zone one with Brig Gen Fox Fot Connor Connorr He lie Hemn liem m mn t iu such h men coca as the flamboyant Charge Gge S Patton The thing thine that w WJ f to lift him out of monotonous ul anonymity was his assignment eDt In tn February 1933 at as assistant to the then chief of 01 sun staff taff Gen Douglas Dougl Ila hw When went to Sift Philippines as special ad Eisenhower WOOL long along tY ff World W Wa w. ll II II broke for foil America Eisenhower was a tem temm temporary brigadier It general n ral and end chief of staff of ot the Uie Third Army B By the following April of 1942 he was a temporary major general genera and was serving at II chief of ot the Division of ot War Plans In Washington Two months I later a ate t e r General Marshall who was willi then chief of or staff asked Eisenhower to com corn mand mend the new European theater of ot operations Thus Eisenhower suddenly appeared ap on the stage as 1111 one of ot the central characters characters' when his name wasn't even on the program No Noone Noone Noone one had heard of him And too some people wished that as the symbol of the Am American contribution tion to winning the war er were a little Utile more The story of World War II tI as Eisenhower saw it has haa been told by many people already including include ing trig himself Little more can be said aid The whole story tory already has been Written of the North African an anand and Italian campaigns D Day D-Day Day fi I Hour the battle batlle for France the St. St Lo La breakthrough through and the Battle of the Bulge the crossing of the Rhine the last campaign in Germany Ger many and the final capitulation of the Axis powers Eisenhower handled what was was was' probably the biggest Job lob any mili mill military tary Lary man ever had and did It well In 33 35 months he changed hanged from an almost unknown general to to an international In in- International lead leader r Following the war Eisenhower became chief of of staff for tor a a a short while a and d' d then left the army to become be bee come orpe come president of Columbia ia urn uni university When the r the 1040 election camp long 1 draft ments sprang UR UR un aU all over the country But tho the g said no Then the North Atlantic AUt Treaty Organization Or Or- f rc came a l J into being and needed a co cp commander E Elsen Eisen en I hower was as asked ed tc q jin take e th the post poat and accepted I. I I Hardly had he tn started d this ne new v Job when th the 1952 election tolled rolled r around and again there was vas talk of drafting him for tor president Eisenhower Eisenhower Eis Eisenhower said ho he could no not take the I nomination In the absence of a clear cut call catl to duty When the primaries were over he had bad his clear lear cut eau call and in July won the Republican nomination Now the election is over and he heIs heis Is about to take on th the biggest Job of his career the career the presidency of the United States His running mate Sen Richard Milhous Nixon was born In Yorba Linda California in 1913 and later moved with his parents to Whittler Whittier where he graduated from Whittier college and won a scholarship to Duke university Upon receiving his law degree he returned returned- to Wh Whittier to to practice It was ah shortly after this that he be met his to wile be Patricia Ryan when they were both acting in a play given by a community theater They have bave two small daughters s. During the war he be served with the Navy spending the better part of four y years ars In th tha ha South Pacific At the end of ot the war be he left the Navy as a 8 U lieutenant commander and elected to go into politics He beat the in incumbent Democrat in inthe inthe inthe the congressional district of at Cal California and won won the seat sut In the house bouse of representatives There he was active In prosecuting prosecute tag ing Alger Hiss and was on the house bouse American un-American activities committee committee com com- when it w was ws s Investigating Gerhard Eisler Elster and Eugene Den Den- nIs lie He also alao took part in the committees committee's com corn Hollywood Inquiries He lie I was coauthor of ot the but bill for tor the tha registration of Com Corn monists In 1950 be he was elected to the senate Then came the IO 1952 1052 2 Republican party convention where to his own surprise he be was nominated for forthe forthe rore the e vice When the election returns had been counted Nixon found that he had been elected to the second highest office In the land land vice vice- president of the United States States only only six years yean after his entry into politics These are your lour president and ana vice president for tor the next tour four years Jears r c A I a 1 9 f I RESIDENT NIXON |