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He has an aircraft carrier named after him, and his place of meditation at his grave in Kansas is really cool. He changed the name of the presidential retreat from "Shangri-La" to "Camp David" in honor of his grandson.
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* [[Four-Star Badass|Five Star Badass]]: During [[World War II]]. Ironically, he had to give up the rank once he entered politics even though that entailed becoming President.
* [[Historical Hero Upgrade]]: Most history books make him seem a strong supporter of desegregation. In truth, he was privately opposed to it, but believed it was his duty to enforce the will of the Supreme Court in their decision regardless.
* [[Playing Both Sides]]: Eisenhower did a lot of this to avoid losing support. He'd keep his mouth mostly shut on partisan issues, while quietly acting to support one side or the other as discreetly as possible while overtly not taking definitive stance. As a result, he managed to retain a lot of support from all sides of political aisle, albeit at the cost of not being able to take definitive stands without sacrificing his ability to leverage being a political moderate.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: While done for far more innocent reasons (mostly to muzzle Joe McCarthy's red baiting), the "executive privilege" argument he managed to use to kneecap the renegade senator (from harassing anyone in the Executive Branch for spurious reasons) would later serve as Nixon's favored tactic in stonewalling the Watergate investigations and made it far more painful for the country. His dealings with threats to Formosa by the PRC by Taiwan also resulted in Lyndon Johnson taking the logic and running with it to justify the Gulf of Tonkin resolution.
* [[Our Presidents Are Different]]: Personable and Iron were the two sides he most showed, though mostly the former in public, with the latter shown to those he needed to show strength to.
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