The Effectiveness Of Eisenhower's First Term: 1953-1956

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confronted with a plethora of events both domestic and international. Shortly
after Eisenhower's inauguration, Joseph Stalin (the Soviet Première) died of a
stroke on March 5, 1953, leaving the United States questioning who would rise to
power in Russia and continue the Cold War against the US. Meanwhile, in the
United States, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was created on
March 12, 1953. On December 8, 1953, Eisenhower gave his "Atoms for Peace"
speech calling for the cooperation of both the United States and the Soviet
Union to help develop a program for the peaceful development of atomic power.
Another event that took place during the administration was the fall and
surrender of the French garrison at Dien Bien Phu to the Viet Minh on May 7,
1954. In domestic issues the administration was further confronted by Brown v.
Board of Education, in which the Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools are
inherently unequal. In 1955, Dr. Jonas Salk developed a ...

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began to consider dropping Nixon from the ticket. The
only chance that Nixon had was to show that he was "as clean as a hound's
tooth"1 as it was put by Eisenhower. To do this the Senator made an address on
national television that was viewed by approximately 55 million American viewers.
The soap opera, as the Republican critics called it, amounted to the story of
Richard's life. The address began with him telling how as a poor boy he worked
in a grocery store and then moved to his involvement in the South Pacific during
the second World War. He also told about how his wife Pat didn't own a mink coat
but owned "a respectable Republican cloth coat."2 Nixon even went so far as to
tell the ...

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