Eisenhower not only led the Normandy D Day invasion which liberated Europe, he also liberated the victims of the Nazi Holocaust. During his presidency he successfully desegregated the Armed Forces of the United States and the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C. He passed two landmark civil rights bills — a fact that is often overlooked, and sent federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas to force the integration of public schools.
He presided over an economic boom that balanced fiscal austerity — he was the last president to cut the budget in real dollars. He began our exploration of space with the creation of NASA and invested tens of billions to create the interstate highway system — the largest public works project in history — which has been re-paid with incalculable dividends in economic growth over the years. Greg Crosby