President Eisenhowr's Home Town
Abilene Kansas
General and President Dwight David Eisenhower
34th President
Followed Harry S. Truman into Office
Eisenhower graduated from West Point
in 1915
and married Mamie Doud.
The Eisenhower Home in Abilene KS.
Not visited much by Pres. Eisenhower
especially after he left office. He went to his
Gettysburg PA farm to retire.
D- Day or the Normandy Invasion
beginning June 6, 1944, every
serviceman involved in the invasion
received the above letter
from General Eisenhower
Eisenhower was considered while in
office, detached. History and good research
indicate otherwise.
The Eisenhower Administration
was responsible for the Interstate System
to not only travel in the U.S. but as important
a military route system to further support
U.S. defense in the homeland.
Eisenhower while born in Texas, lived in
Abilene Kansas as a boy where he ultimately
was accepted to West Point. The Abilene
home pictured above as family with Eisenhower,
and his siblings and parents living there.
He returned seldom after he left West Point.
Eisenhower died March 28, 1969
at age 79
Eisenhower was a great General as
well as our 34th President.
The warrior in him gives us his incite to the true meaning of war outcome in this quote:
There is no victory in any war except through our imagination, through our
dedication and through our work to avoid it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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