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The official X feed of the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum. 'The proudest thing I can claim is that I am from Abilene.' DDE, June 1945
Abilene, KS
Joined March 2010
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, took place #onthisday 24 years ago. Never forget.
This week marks the 24th anniversary of the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001. In 2019, the National Archives shared an image from the holdings of the @gwblibrary, depicting firefighters from President Bush’s visit to Ground Zero on September 14.
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Eisenhower Pres. Library will celebrate Constitution Day on Sep. 17 w/ its first-ever naturalization ceremony! Public is invited to 11 am (CDT) ceremony in Library indoor courtyard. Will be livestreamed at https://t.co/vA5ifePzg4. Eisenhower Pres. Library photo by Jeff Nelson.
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#onthisday 68 yrs ago-9/9/1957-President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first civil rights legislation signed into law since Reconstruction. Photo: Pres. Eisenhower signing Civil Rights Act on 9/9/1957. Eisenhower Presidential Library photo, 67-174-4.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower went to @WestPoint_USMA and his brother Milton was once president of @KState and we will never forgive ourselves for missing the opportunity to christen last weekend's K-State-Army football game the Eisenhower Bowl. Opportunity squandered.
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CORRECTION: President Eisenhower said this on July 28, 1955, not July 27. The occasion was a speech marking the issuance of the Atoms for Peace postage stamp.
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for good or for evil depending upon the purpose of man." ~President Dwight D. Eisenhower, July 27, 1955. #ilikeike #ikelife #Eisenhower #POTUS Photo: Eisenhower Presidential Library, 62-54-2. 2/2
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"Every discovery we have made, even the use of fire to warm our bodies, to cook our food, has also been used as one of the devastating weapons of war to bring destruction to enemies. Every single thing that man has discovered can be used 1/2
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https://t.co/bZP7BWB9Ex It's #NationalReadABookDay! Check out this great article on Eisenhower's love of books & reading from our @NatlParkService friends at Eisenhower National Historic Site in Gettysburg, PA! Then go read an actual book. #ilikeike #ikelife #Eisenhower
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Dwight Eisenhower, Eisenhower National Historic Site
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https://t.co/WBXAJaf1Ko Happy #Nationalreadabookday! Why not pick up a copy of one of Ike's books to read? For example: "Crusade in Europe." And look! It's available from the online store of @Newsweek's #1 Top Presidential Attraction in the country! That's us, by the way.
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I think we shall win." ~President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Jun. 14, 1957. #ilikeike #ikelife #Eisenhower #POTUS Photo: Eisenhower Presidential Library, 72-703-4. 2/2
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"We are striving to make a better world for ourselves, for our children, that kind of world in which free men can live--and I think it is just that simple and just that important. As long as we approach it that way, I think we shall never give up. On the contrary, 1/2
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children's time; indeed...there is only one real peace now, and that is peace for all time." ~President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Aug. 23, 1956. #ilikeike #ikelife #Eisenhower #POTUS Photo: Eisenhower Presidential Library, 72-2733-1. 2/2
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"No one is more aware than I that it is the young who fight the wars, and it is the young who give up years of their lives to military training & service. It is not enough that their elders promise 'peace in our time'; it must be peace in their time too, and in their 1/2
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Make a list of the ten greatest Americans who've ever lived. Who ya got?* *Please note: lists NOT containing the name "Dwight D. Eisenhower" will be ignored for being ridiculous. Photo: Eisenhower Presidential Library, 77-18-1426. #ilikeike #ikelife #abilenekansas #topten
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Relive HOOD Summit '25: Enter the Mainframe. Watch the livestream now: https://t.co/cLhiCw7bpH
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to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love." ~President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Presidential Farewell Address, Jan. 17, 1961. #ilikeike #ikelife #Eisenhower #POTUS Photo: Eisenhower Presidential Library, 62-54. 3/3
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will understand, also, its heavy responsibilities; that all who are insensitive to the needs of others will learn charity; that the scourges of poverty, disease and ignorance will be made to disappear from the earth, and that, in the goodness of time, all peoples will come 2/3
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"We pray that peoples of all faiths, all races, all nations, may have their great human needs satisfied; that those now denied opportunity shall come to enjoy it to the full; that all who yearn for freedom may experience its spiritual blessings; that those who have freedom 1/3
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