The Eisenhower Memorial Commission recognized the importance of understanding the outstanding elements of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s historical legacy. In April 2002, Louis Galambos, Co-Editor of The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower and Professor of History at The Johns Hopkins University, agreed to chair the Eisenhower Legacy Committee. The committee, which included a select group of leading experts, was organized into three subcommittees, to consider Eisenhower as general, as president, and as an American citizen who devoted his life to public service.

Serving on the Committee with Professor Galambos were:

• Michael Beschloss, Award-winning historian of the presidency and author of Eisenhower: A Centennial Life (1990).
  
  
• Michael J. Birkner, Chair of the history department at Gettysburg College, a biographer of Sherman Adams and scholar of 19th and 20th-century American politics.
  
  
• Robert R. Bowie, Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Emeritus, Harvard University and Director of Policy Planning under President Eisenhower.
  
  
• Carlo D’Este, Retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and author of four books about World War II, as well as a biography of George Patton and the recently released Eisenhower: A Soldier’s Life (2002).
  
  
• Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster, Senior Fellow at the Eisenhower Institute, Staff Secretary and Defense Liaison Officer to President Eisenhower from 1954 until 1961, and Commander of NATO from 1969 until 1974.
  
  
• John H. Morrow, Jr., Franklin Professor of History at the University of Georgia and a noted military historian.
  
  
• Kiron K. Skinner, Scholar of American public policy, foreign policy and history at Carnegie Mellon University, and currently the W. Glenn Campbell Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
  
  
• Richard Norton Smith, Director of the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas and nationally recognized authority on the American presidency.
  
  
• Daun van Ee, Historian with the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress and Co-Editor of The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower.

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