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Abilene, Kansas, Eisenhower was the third
of seven sons. He excelled in sports in high
school, and received an appointment to
West Point. Stationed in Texas as a second
lieutenant, he met Mamie Geneva Doud,
whom he married in 1916.
In his early Army career, he excelled in
staff assignments, serving under Generals
John J. Pershing, Douglas MacArthur, and
Walter Krueger. After Pearl Harbor,
General George C. Marshall called him to
Washington for a war plans assignment. He
commanded the Allied Forces landing in
North Africa in November 1942; on D-Day,
1944, he was Supreme Commander of the
troops invading France.
After the war, he became President of
Columbia University, then took leave to
assume supreme command over the new
NATO forces being assembled in 1951.
Republican emissaries to his headquarters
near Paris persuaded him to run for
President in 1952.
"I like Ike" was an irresistible slogan;
Eisenhower won a sweeping victory.
Negotiating from military strength, he tried
to reduce the strains of the Cold War. In
1953, the signing of a truce brought an
armed peace along the border of South
Korea. The death of Stalin the same year
caused shifts in relations with Russia.
Eisenhower concentrated on maintaining
world peace. He watched with pleasure the
development of his "atoms for peace"
program--the loan of American uranium to
"have not" nations for peaceful purposes.
Before he left office in January 1961, for
his farm in Gettysburg, he urged the
necessity of maintaining an adequate
military strength, but cautioned that vast,
long-continued military expenditures could
breed potential dangers to our way of life.
He concluded with a prayer for peace "in
the goodness of time." Both themes
remained timely and urgent when he died,
after a long illness, on March 28, 1969.
His two-room suite features a queen bed,
13.5" heavenly bed pillowtop mattress,
desk, chair, leather sofa, armoire, 27" TV,
VCR and DVD player, 20" TV, refrigerator,
microwave, bottled water, Andes
chocolates, coffee, green tea, hot chocolate,
microwave popcorn, private bathroom with
shower, and all the other standard features
of our Suites.
This Suite rents for $79 per night with a
10% discount for AAA and AARP
members. If you stay for 6 nights, the 7th
night is free. Extended stays are welcome.
