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  2. White House Conference on Aging - Wikipedia

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    The White House Conference on Aging [1] (WHCoA) is a once-a-decade conference sponsored by the Executive Office of the President of the United States which makes policy recommendations to the president and Congress regarding the aged. The first of its kind, the goals of the conference are to promote the dignity, health and economic security of ...

  3. Timeline of the Dwight D. Eisenhower presidency - Wikipedia

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    January 5 – Eisenhower orders that a "blank wall" be placed between physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and all areas of operation of the Department of Defense. [11] January 6 – President Eisenhower attends morning special church services marking the reconvening of Congress at the National Presbyterian Church in Washington. Other government ...

  4. Alliance for Retired Americans - Wikipedia

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    The Eisenhower administration began to study the needs of the aged, and liberal Republicans began to support health insurance for the elderly. As President Eisenhower's administration drew to a close in 1960, planning began for the first White House Conference on Aging, to take place in 1961.

  5. The Age of Eisenhower - Wikipedia

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    The book is written by William Hitchcock, a historian who studies modern European history and Cold War history. [1] Hitchcock spent eight years researching and writing the book, using archives from the Eisenhower Presidential Library, the National Archives at College Park, the Library of Congress, and the Miller Center for Public Affairs.

  6. Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower - Wikipedia

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    Dwight D. Eisenhower's tenure as the 34th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 1953, and ended on January 20, 1961. Eisenhower, a Republican from Kansas, took office following his landslide victory over Democratic nominee Adlai Stevenson in the 1952 presidential election.

  7. Dwight D. Eisenhower - Wikipedia

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    Eisenhower was born in Denison, Texas, and raised in Abilene, Kansas. His family had a strong religious background, and his mother became a Jehovah's Witness. Eisenhower, however, belonged to no organized church until 1952. He graduated from West Point in 1915 and later married Mamie Doud, with whom he had two sons.

  8. Red, Blue and Green: U.S. Inflation Rates by President - AOL

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    1. Eisenhower: 1.4%. 1953-1961. Eisenhower's presidency started with the end of the Korean War and included three recessions. Inflation stayed relatively low and stable through 1956, when it ...

  9. List of international trips made by presidents of the United ...

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    While Eisenhower was the first president to travel by jet (and the first to travel via helicopter as well), the first airplane trips by a sitting president were those of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He made multiple long-distance trips abroad by plane, each one an offshoot of Allied diplomatic interactions during World War II.