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Serial Set 11675, Senate Inaugural Address of Dwight D. Eisenhower, January Document, no. 9 20, 1953 Serial Set 11992, Senate Inaugural Address of Dwight D. Eisenhower, January Document, no.15 21, 1957 Serial Set 12897-3, House Selected Speeches of Dwight Document, no. 91-355 Teasley, Martin M., Was Her Career: The Papers AE 1.111: of Mamie Doud Eisenhower "Prologue", Summer 1987, vo.19, #2, p. 107-115 D 114.2:Ei8 Dwight David Eisenhower: The Centennial Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, GS 4.113: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953-1961 Klapthor, Margaret Brown, The Gown of Mrs. SI 3.2:D81 Dwight D. Eisenhower Display loaned by Eisenhower Museum Supplemented with: Fact Sheets from the Eisenhower Web Site Items from the General Collection

Highlighting Ike's Presidency

April 11, 1953 Department of Health, Education, and Welfare is formed July 17, 1953 Korean Armistice May 17, 1954 Brown vs Topeka Board of Education August 17, 1954 Atomic Energy Act May 28, 1956 Soil Bank Act June 19, 1956 Federal Aid Highway Act January 31, 1958 Explorer I - first American satellite September 2, 1958 National Defense Education Act October 1, 1958 NASA comes into existence January 3, 1959 Alaska becomes 49th state August 21, 1959 Hawaii becomes 50th state

Highlighting Ike's Presidency - Sources

Eisenhower Administration and the "Prologue", v. 27, AE 1.111: no. 1, p. 59 U.S. Statutes at Large, v. 70, 1956, p. 188 GS 4.111: Soil Bank Act U.S. Statutes at Large, v. 70, 1956, p. 374 GS 4.111: Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 U.S. Statutes at Large, v. 72, 1958, p. 1580 GS 4.111: National Defense Education Act of 1958 U.S. Statutes at Large, v. 73, 1959, p. 4 GS 4.111: Admission of Hawaii into the Union U.S. Statutes at Large, v. 73, 1959, p. 16 GS 4.111: Proclamation admitting Alaska into the Union U.S. Reports, v. 347, October Term 1953, p. 483 JU 6.8/1:347 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka National Aeronautics and Space Administration First Semiannual NAS 1.1:959 Report to the Congress, October 1, 1958 - March 31, 1959 Y 4 In Alaska Statehood 8/13:AL 1/2 Y 4.In 8/13:H Hawaii Statehood 31

Atoms for Peace - Sources

(one of Eisenhower's major achievements)

AE 1.102:At 7 : Milestone Documents in the National Archives E 1.2:SA 9/2 Reed, Mary Beath, et al. Savannah River Site at Fifty U.S. Statutes at Large, v. 68, 1954, p. 919 GS 4.111: Atomic Energy Act of 1954