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[[File:ilikeike.jpg|frame|Who doesn't like Ike? (Answer: Adlai Stevenson [[Fire Emblem Tellius
{{quote| '''I Like Ike!''' - ''Eisenhower campaign slogan''}}
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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]]?), but historians now [[Vindicated
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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=== Eisenhower in fiction: ===
* ''[[Married...
* Ike plays a minor role early in Darwyn Cooke's graphic novel ''[[The DCU|DC]]: The New Frontier'', mainly to represent the "old guard" before Kennedy's election at the end. He's slightly more prominent in a "special missing chapter" published a few years later, where he conscripts [[
* [[Indiana Jones]] told his Commie captors in ''[[Indiana Jones and
* He appears in the [[Meg Ryan]] romantic comedy ''I.Q.'', dumbfounding mechanic Ed Walters ([[Tim Robbins]]) in the process. "Ike?" Apparently a close friend of [[Albert Einstein]].
* As a humourous take on an instance of [[Name's the Same]], his campaign slogan "We like Ike!" was used in ''[[Super Smash Bros|Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'' to cheer on [[Name's the Same|another guy named]] [[Fire Emblem Tellius
* In the ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'' movie, Mr. Anderson is touring the White House. He stares at the portrait of Eisenhower lamenting "Where are you when we need you, Ike?"
* ''[[Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew (Comic Book)|Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew]]'' referred to Ike's Earth-C counterpart, General (and presumably 1950s Earth-C US president) Eisenhowler, during Earth-C's version of [[World War II|D-Day]], which Zoo Crew team member Fastback was forcibly sent back in time to by the villainous Timekeeper.
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* The Queen from ''[[True Blood]]'' lost her attraction to men during the Eisenhower years.
* In [[Woody Allen]]'s story ''Remembering Needleman'', an eulogy for the fictional academic Sandor Needleman, it's mentioned that he was dismissed from Columbia University for his disagreement with Eisenhower (who was the president of the university between 1948-53) "over whether the class bell signaled the end of a period or the beginning of another", which led to Needleman attacking Eisenhower with a carpet beater who ran for cover into a toy store.
* In ''[[A World of Laughter,
* Ike appears at the beginning of ''[[Superman Red Son]]'', first announcing the existence of Soviet Superman to the United States, and later privately lamenting the forthcoming [[Cold War]] escalation to his aides.
* Eisenhower appears in ''[[The Longest Day]]'', making the fateful decision to send the invasion fleet to Normandy through questionable weather on June 6th. [[It Was His Sled|It works.]]
* ''Ike: Countdown to D-Day'' focuses on the planning of Operation Overlord.
* In the 1998 [[Video Game Remake]] of ''[[Battlezone (1998
* He briefly appears in at start of the 1985 sci-fi comedy ''[[My Science Project]]''.
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