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Dwight D. Eisenhower: Difference between revisions
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Ike appointed five Supreme Court Justices, most famously Earl Warren. Warren was expected to be a conservative, but turned out to be very liberal indeed (although Eisenhower's comment about it being his biggest mistake may be apocryphal).
Ike died in 1969. He was seen for a while as a "do-nothing" President (wait, didn't he end [[The Korean War]]?<ref>Well, no - he stopped the fighting, but as of 2020 there's never been a peace treaty signed.</ref>), but historians now [[Vindicated by History|often place him in the top 10]]. He was very much a non-partisan kind of guy and probably the most moderate president of the last century.
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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