The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission is in the planning stages of
creating an enduring Eisenhower National Memorial in our nation’s capital. We
have established this website to invite the American people to participate in
this momentous effort to honor Ike’s lifetime of public service.
Our
foremost goal is to converse with you on every aspect
of the memorialization process. To enrich this discourse we continue
to develop this website, seeking your ideas and providing
information
about Dwight Eisenhower’s life and legacy.
- Creating the National Interstate Highway system that we all depend
on today
- Establishing the basic national defense policies that kept the
Cold War cold and prevented nuclear war in the 20th Century
- Achieving passage of the first two Civil Rights Acts (1957
and 1960) since Reconstruction and guiding the desegregation of the nation’s
capital, Washington, DC
- Forging an armistice that stopped combat in the Korean War
- Fostering the development of both military reconnais-sance and civilian communications earth orbiting satellites
- Bringing statehood to Alaska and Hawaii
- Bringing the St. Lawrence Seaway to completion
- Legislation that added over 10 million Americans to the Social Security system
- Creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
to provide civilian leadership in our exploration of space
- Creating what is now the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in order to greatly improve flying safety through control of all aircraft in our skies
- Creating the Department of Health Education and Welfare (later split into the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Education)
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