Dwight Eisenhower (A Life)
Dennis Lee Nowicki
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October 14, 1890, sometime late that night Ida Eisenhower gave birth to her third son, Dwight He finished high school in '09, and in '11, he Entered the Army's West Point, because tuition was free He wed his girlfriend, Mamie in the middle of '16 Then trained tank crews at Gettysburg, had their first son in-between Sadly, Doud, their first passed away at the age of three In '22, their second, John, completes the family His rank advanced to General by 1941 Then, Dwight's Supreme Commander of the North African invasion Then, Dwight was in charge of Europe and helped to plan D-day And worked well with the other allied heads and got his way Ike! Eisenhower 34th to preside His strategic skills helped him to be the nation's guide The war ended, he wrote memoirs, headed a university Then, with reluctance, he became the Prez in '53 He worked to contain Communism, corruption, and the debt A highway system, establish NASA, and their budget Dwight ended the Korean War with threats that nukes be sent But got complaints for playing golf instead of government 'Ike' ended his two terms in '61, and in his speech Warned of the Military-Industrial Complex overreach Ike died in DC on March 28th, of '69 From his seventh heart attack, as his health was in decline His legacy was always in an optimistic state His face was on the dollar coin, '71 to '78
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