Eisenhower in the 1950s Sources

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Eisenhower in the 1950's - sources

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

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

Atoms for Peace - sources

(one of Eisenhower's major achievements)

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