Dwight D. Eisenhower's tenure as the 34th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 1953, and ended on January 20, 1961. Eisenhower, a Republican from Kansas, too
Official portrait, 1956
Eisenhower presidential campaign, Baltimore, Maryland c. September 1952
Earl Warren, the 14th chief justice of the United States, presided over the liberal Warren Court from October 1953 until June 1969.
Eisenhower and members of his Cabinet inspect the YB-52 prototype of the B-52, c.1954
Harry S. Truman's tenure as the 33rd president of the United States began on April 12, 1945, upon the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and ended on January 20, 1953. He had been vice presiden
Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower
…against Soviet aggression. He was also motivated by the corruption that he believed had crept into the federal government during the later years of the Truman administration. Eisenhower suggested in late 1951 that he would not oppose any effort to nominate him for president, although he still refused to seek the nomination…
Official portrait, 1945
Truman is sworn in as the 33rd President of the United States by Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone in the White House Cabinet Room, while Bess Truman looks on.
Truman's Cabinet, 1949
Joseph Stalin, Harry S. Truman, and Winston Churchill in Potsdam, July 1945