#Trump admin considers giving up #NATO command that has been exclusively #American since #Eisenhower https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-admin-considers-giving-nato-command-exclusively-american-eisenho-rcna196503
Ich musste bei der #Abschiedsrede von #Biden auch gleich an #Eisenhower denken.
Anscheinend ist die Hauptfunktion dieser Abschiedszeremonie, dass jene die die ganze Zeit immer extrem kontrolliert öffentlich auftreten mussten, wenigstens ein einziges mal den #HofNarr spielen dürfen & aussprechen was alle eh schon wissen.
In diesem Fall, dass die #USA keine #Demokratie mehr sind, sondern eine #Oligarchie.
https://www.wiwo.de/politik/ausland/usa-joe-bidens-abschiedsrede-ist-ein-weckruf/30170658.html
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**This Month in Movietone History**
@BritishMovietone
_"Momentous historical events that occurred during the month of January"_
#Video length: seventeen minutes and twenty-three seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24C1jlPOAFY
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Churchill #Eisenhower #Leningrad #HarryTruman #JFK @histodon @histodons
**Eisenhower in 5 Minutes**
#Video length: four minutes and thirty-six seconds.
#History #Histodon #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #C20th #20thCentury #Eisenhower @histodon @histodons
The full, evergreen post on polio:
The US #polio epidemic peaked in 1952: 57,000+ cases, 3,145 died and 21,269 were left with paralysis.
Dr. Jonas #Salk developed a polio vaccine in 1955. (At one point in the #1950s survey respondents found him more recognizable in this country than Dwight #Eisenhower.)
Within two decades, domestic transmission of polio was wiped out in the #US.
Polio never reached natural herd immunity, it was eradicated by #vaccines.
cc: @mcnado
67 years ago today, nine brave teenagers changed America for the better.
#History #TheLittleRockNine #Racism #Prejudice #Ignorance #Education #LittleRock #Eisenhower #Equality #desegregation
How the South Became Republican
“Over the course of the 1952 campaign Eisenhower made three swings through the South, visiting every state except Mississippi. He cajoled audiences and slammed politics in the capital. At times, he courted controversy. When ‘Dixie’, a pro-Confederate song and relic of the Civil War, was played during a visit to South Carolina, Eisenhower commented: ‘I always stand up when they play that song’, drawing cheers from the crowd.”
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/how-south-became-republican
#History #Histodon #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Politics #USPolitics #USPol #Republicans #GOP #Eisenhower #TheSouth @histodon @histodons
"Of course, these presidents also had different durations in office. John F. #Kennedy wasn’t in office as long as his predecessor, Dwight D. #Eisenhower. So it would make sense if the country added fewer #jobs during his administration. (As it turns out, it didn’t, but you get the point.)
If we adjust #employment increases by months in office, we still see a difference — particularly since George H.W. #Bush in 1989."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/22/clinton-dnc-jobs-created-since-cold-war/
Eisenhower Gets Snappy (1957)
“Eisenhower angered by golf query”
#Video length: one minute and fourteen seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOShyunJS10
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Archive #Eisenhower #Golf #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Politics #USPol @histodon @histodons
@GottaLaff while I’m sputtering with absolute rage may I suggest these 46 House Republicans read General Eisenhower’s D-Day message to the troops of the Allied Expeditionary Forces on June 6, 1944? Methinks they have forgotten who we are. From the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
“ You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty- loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts,
you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, t h e elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world.”
Did they forget about the part where he says “security for ourselves in a free world?” Do they realize that is NATO’s prime directive? OR… what part don’t they like? Is it security? Is it a free world?
Today in Labor History February 11, 1953: Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower denied all appeals for clemency for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. The government executed them at Sing Sing in 1953. They had been convicted of espionage for the USSR. Their sons, Michael and Robert Meeropol (adopted by Abel Merepol, composer of the anti-lynching song “Strange Fruit,”), maintained their parents’ innocence. However, after the fall of the Soviet Union, decoded Soviet cables showed that their father had collaborated. They continued to fight for the mother’s pardon, but Obama refused to grant it.
![Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, separated by heavy wire screen as they leave U.S. Court House after being found guilty by jury. By Roger Higgins, photographer from "New York World-Telegram and the Sun" - Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c17772, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1309692](https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/111/913/714/995/849/373/original/a4d5e393e6bd1556.jpg "Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, separated by heavy wire screen as they leave U.S. Court House after being found guilty by jury. By Roger Higgins, photographer from "New York World-Telegram and the Sun" - Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c17772, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1309692")
We’re officially welcoming the Ike bobblehead into the presidential library collection. Only six more to go (including two non-consecutive Cleveland bobbleheads)! #POTUS34 #Eisenhower #Ike
American and British Jets Pummel Yemen a Second Time
According to the Pentagon, #US naval ships #PhilippineSea, #Mason and #Gravely and the submarine #Florida were involved
And #SuperHornets and #Growlers attached to Carrier Air Wing 3 aboard the Dwight D. #Eisenhower also flew
#UK #RAF Typhoons based at #Akrotiri, #Cyprus flew 1,300 miles each way to drop precision munitions on targets as well
https://youtu.be/IRYf2W9aQ70?feature=share #MiddleEast #News
2 Bear Witness to #Evil. #DwightEisenhower understood why we must preserve memories of #atrocities duty still painfully w us 2day. Ohrdruf became 1st concentration camp liberated by American soldiers. It was 1st x #Americans saw horribly emaciated survivors 1st time saw piled-up corpses of #Holocaust victims. #Eisenhower deeply shaken by what he saw. He looked at bodies along w #Patton, #Bradley. Reactions ranged “from shock to incomprehension in Patton’s case, 2 vomiting.https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/to-bear-witness-to-evil
Keep thinking about this #quote I saw yesterday: "Dictators, #Eisenhower wrote, 'make one contribution to their people which leads them to tend to support such systems—freedom from the necessity of informing themselves and making up their own minds concerning these tremendous complex and difficult questions.'” #ushistory #Democracy
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-20-2023
The #US Dwight D. #Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group passed through the #Gibraltar Strait a few hours ago and entered the #Med
A #lesbian #WWII #vet was #renowned for #standingup to #Eisenhower. Was it all a #lie?
#JohnniePhelps may have #fabricated the #story, but she was still a #pioneering #lesbian #advocate
#Women #Lesbians #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #History #MilitaryService #Representation #Culture #LavenderScare
I live in #Germany, which was occupied by the US and other nations after #WW2. They implemented a lot of good ideas here, including, but not limited to abolition of the death penalty and torture...I hope that one day, they'll also be able to implement that at home.
I guess we got lucky to be occupied by the Democrats. Let me just look it up - no, the US military administration was led by #Eisenhower. And that was that.
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