John Eisenhower
John Eisenhower
John Sheldon Doud Eisenhowerwas a United States Army officer and military historian. As the son of General, later President Dwight D. Eisenhower, his opportunities for front-line service were often restricted, at some cost to his career, though he ended as a decorated brigadier-general. In the administration of President Richard Nixon, he served as United States Ambassador to Belgium...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSoldier
Date of Birth3 August 1922
CountryUnited States of America
My dad being an Army officer, I was just born to it. I was raised in a military manner, and it was a given that Army brats went to West Point, so I went to West Point in 1941. And being in the military has been my life.
As son of a Republican president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, it is automatically expected by many that I am a Republican. For 50 years, through the election of 2000, I was.
You know, my dad was a lieutenant colonel at Ft. Lewis on the 3rd of March, 1941. Fifteen months later, he was commanding a theater of war.
I was a lieutenant in World War II.
In the summer of 1952, when I was 30, the Army assigned me to an infantry unit fighting in Korea. Meanwhile, though, there was other news in my family: My father had become the Republican presidential nominee. As an ambitious young major, I refused any offers for other assignments.
When France fell in 1940, De Gaulle was a temporary brigadier general.