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Tower at Eisenhower Avenue
The Eisenhower Avenue Valley site is unique in the Washington Area for its highrise development potential. It offers access to the Metro line, the beltway and Old Town Alexandria. Its zoning diversity will accommodate light Industrial, commercial and residential construction. The question of …
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Agricultural policy-making in the Eisenhower administration
… traces agricultural policy—making during the Eisenhower Administration. Four specific goals are involved. First, by providing a general review of the Eisenhower farm programs, this work continues the efforts of many scholars to provide a collection of monographs tracing American agricultural …
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The Eisenhower-Nixon Campaign Organization of 1952
Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-13T15:18:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 7606742.PDF: 19082557 bytes, checksum: 50804a5e5191beaa40e3b949f5b25693 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1975
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Light and the urban form: Eisenhower Metro Center
… of objects is a strategy I explore in the "Eisenhower Metro Center" to combat today's urban sprawl. Architect Steven Holl suggests, "The expanded boundary of the contemporary city calls for the synthesis of new spatial compositions. An intensified urban realm could be a coherent mediator …
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The Eisenhower administration and the concept of massive retaliation
… to evaluate the historical development of the Eisenhower-Dulles concept of "massive retaliation" from the time of its pronouncement in 1954 until the Eisenhower Administration came to an end in i960. The methodology used in developing this thesis has placed a heavy reliance upon the statements …
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A fine group of fellows: Civilian advisors, Eisenhower, and national security planning
<p>When President Dwight Eisenhower took office in January 1953, he was immediately faced with the challenges of the cold war. Throughout his two terms Eisenhower was forced to adapt to political changes within the Soviet Union, the advent of the hydrogen bomb, the development of ICBMs, and the …
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Eisenhower and the Internal Focus: The Persistence of Traditional Thought in American National Security Formulation
This approach tempers the once-common view of Eisenhower as an internationalist. It also expands our understanding of the pre-World War Two isolationists. Finally, it displays unexpected continuities between American national security thinking before World War Two and in the early Cold War.
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Estados Unidos e América Latina: as condicionalidades da Guerra Fria e o impacto da administração Eisenhower
… to observe how the systemic conjuncture and the Eisenhower Administration’s foreign policy influenced Latin America and, specifically, Brazil. The Cold War certainly limited the action possibilities of Ike government, but it was the deaf dialogue adopted that intensified the dissatisfaction of …
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United States national security policy under presidents Truman and Eisenhower: the evolving role of the National Security Council
… It was not until the inauguration of the Eisenhower presidency that the National Security Council began to fulfill the role envisioned by the 1947 National Security Act. This thesis examines the role played by the National Security Council in the development and implementation of United …
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Ike's Last War: Making War Safe for Society
<p>This thesis analyzes how Eisenhower defined war and its utility in his New Look defense policy and the ramifications for America’s interactions with the world through its foreign policy. It argues that Eisenhower redefined the relationship between war and society as he executed his grand …
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Constituting the un-American atheist: Eisenhower's theistnormativity and the negation of American atheists
During the Cold War, President Eisenhower used civil religion and what Philip Wander calls prophetic dualism to construct an image of the American people. In doing so he excluded atheists from his description of the American citizenry. In order to understand how atheists fit into the national …
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The Impact of the Cold War and the Second Red Scare on the 1952 American Presidential Election
<p>In the fall of 1952, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson II faced off in a heated Presidential Election. The reputations of the two men followed them throughout the campaign cycle. Eisenhower was perceived as the General who defeated the Germans on the European …
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American Protestants and U.S. Foreign Policy toward the Soviet Union during the Eisenhower Administration: Billy Graham, Reinhold Niebuhr, and G. Bromley Oxnam
… toward Soviet Union during the Dwight D. Eisenhower presidency (1953-1961). The question of what a culture dominated by Protestant denominations thought of its global adversary has not yet been sufficiently explored by scholars of either American religious history or diplomatic history. …
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At sword's point : Charles E. Wilson and the Senate, 1953-1957
… career of Charles E. Wilson, President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Secretary of Defense from 1953-1957, is a neglected, yet important, field of study for studentsof the Eisenhower Presidency. Therefore, a study of Wilson's controversial tenure as Secretary of Defense is necessary for at least three …
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Towards a ressourcement of Dwight D. Eisenhower's belief that "our form of government makes no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith"
This Thesis examines Dwight D. Eisenhower's contention that our form of government makes no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith. In this context, it examines the beliefs of the Founding generation that support Eisenhower's contention. It also examines the beliefs prevailing …
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The U.S. Army's Early Search For Relevancy in the Nuclear Age
… nuclear arm that roughly coincided with the two Eisenhower administrations, 1953-1961. The reason for the concentration on the Eisenhower years ws because during President Eisenhower's two administrations, Army creativity and interest in tactical nuclear weapons hit both the heights of enthusiasm …
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Anthony Eden, the Egypt Committee, and the Politics of Prestige during the Suez Crisis
… Alliance. This rift would force President Dwight Eisenhower to side with the Soviet Union against Britain to resolve the conflict. The effects of the crisis caused the British to lose their prestige as a world power and later, to withdrawal from the Middle East.
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Twenty-Four-Hour Woman
… for Lawrence," and "Apartment 12 B Dwight D. Eisenhower Street." These poems say, "Even when it's sunny on the other side of town somebody could be wearing a frown. It's because the blues don't mess with folks who ain't got anything to lose.â"
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