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Knowlton, William A. (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Four-star general; staff member to Generals Dwight Eisenhower and Omar Bradley in the 1950s; staff member, U.S. Army chief of staff; staff member, secretary of defense 1964-1966; assistant division commander, Ninth Division; Military
Goodpaster, Andrew Jackson, 1915-2005 (Item)
  • Bio: Andrew Jackson Goodpaster (b. February 12, 1915, Granite City, Illinois-d. May 16, 2005, Washington, D.C.), U.S. Army general. Goodpaster served as White House Staff Secretary and Defense Liaison Officer to President Dwight D. Eisenhower from
Steele, John L. (John Lawrence), 1917-2001 (Item)
  • Bio: John Lawrence Steele (1917-2001), journalist and communications executive, reported on political events in Washington, D.C., for many years. During the 1940s and early 1950s he worked for United Press International and covered Dwight D
Eisenhower, Milton Stover, 1899-1985 (Item)
  • Bio: Milton Stover Eisenhower (b. September 15, 1899, d. May 2, 1985) was the youngest brother of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. He served as an adviser to every U.S. president from Calvin Coolidge through Richard Nixon. He began working
  • Eisenhower, Milton Stover, 1899-1985
Hobby, Oveta Culp, 1905-1995 (Item)
  • by Dwight D. Eisenhower to Washington. Now president, Eisenhower appointed her the first secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), making her the second female cabinet member.
Harlow, Bryce Nathaniel, 1916-1987 (Item)
  • in 1947 as director of the professional staff of the House Armed Services Committee. He held this position until he joined the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952 as an administrative assistant. Eisenhower was the first president
  • LBJ Connection: Assistant Librarian, House of Representatives, 1938-1940; Chief Clerk, House Armed Services Committee, 1950-1951; Special Assistant and Deputy Assistant to President Eisenhower, 1953-1961; Adviser to President Nixon, 1969-1970
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1902-1985 (Item)
  • to enter active service, and achieved the rank of lieutenant colonel. After World War II, he was reelected to the U.S. Senate in 1946. He played an influential role in the Republican Party, and helped Dwight D. Eisenhower secure the nomination for president
Bohlen, Charles E. (Charles Eustis), 1904-1973 (Item)
  • . Increasingly he was not only serving as an interpreter but as an adviser to secretaries of state, including James F. Byrnes, George C. Marshall, and Dean Acheson. Controversy surrounded Bohlen''s appointment to Moscow as ambassador by President Dwight D
Hays, L. Brooks (Lawrence Brooks), 1898-1981 (Item)
  • in Washington, felt compelled to step in and mediate the controversy. With violence possible, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent in federal troops. At the next election, in 1958, with the Arkansas electorate seething over what it considered a federal invasion
Lehman, John H., 1905-1987 (Item)
  • Bio: John H. Lehman (1905-1987) was the attorney for the Eisenhower Foundation and the Eisenhower Presidential Library Commission from 1945 to 1969.
  • LBJ Connection: Incorporator for the Eisenhower Foundation
Hagerty, James C. (James Campbell), 1909-1981 (Item)
  • Bio: James C. Hagerty (1909-1981) was the Executive Assistant Press Secretary to New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey from 1943 to 1952. He served as President Eisenhower's Press Secretary from 1953 to 1961.
  • LBJ Connection: White House Press Secretary for President Eisenhower, 1953-1961
Schwartz, Marie Smith, 1920 (Item)
  • Bio: Marie Schwartz (b. March 19, 1920, Atlanta, Georgia) was a journalist, author, philanthropist, and a personal friend to the Lyndon Johnson family. She was a staff writer for the Washington Post, covering the White House during the Eisenhower
Gavin, John, 1931- (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Donor of a 1959 letter from LBJ to President Eisenhower
Jones, Roger W. (Roger Warren), 1908-1993 (Item)
  • . During the Eisenhower administration Jones served as Assistant Director for Legislative Reference and as Deputy Director of the Bureau. President Eisenhower appointed him chairman of the Civil Service Commission in 1959 where he served until the start
Laitin, Joseph (Item)
  • of the Budget. In 1974 he became the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. Laitin also served on the Marshall Commission from 1966 to 1967, the Eisenhower Commission from 1968-1969, and the Presidential Commission on Campus Unrest (Scranton
Roberts, Charles Wesley, 1916-1992 (Item)
  • correspondent in which capacity he covered the adminstrations of Eisenhower, Kenney, Johnson and Nixon. He was one of three journalists present to witness the swearing in of President Johnson aboard Air Force One after President Kennedy's assassination. After
Cabot, John M. (John Moors), 1901-1981 (Item)
  • in the Foreign Service, Cabot served as Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs during the Eisenhower Administration, Consul General in Shanghai, China until its communist takeover, and as charge d'affaires in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. After retiring
Huntington, Albert H., 1913-2001 (Item)
  • Administration (ICA) and the Agency for International Development (AID). After his retirement in 1979, Huntington continued working part time at AID where he had access to the historical records of the agency. He began providing the Eisenhower Library
Dillon, C. Douglas (Clarence Douglas), 1909-2003 (Item)
  • . In 1953, President Eisenhower appointed Dillon ambassador to France, a position he held until 1957. Upon his return to the United States, Dillon served in the State Department as Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs from 1958 to 1959
Horn, Stephen John, 1931- (Item)
  • Bio: Stephen John Horn (b. 1931), Republican Congressman from California, was born in Gilroy, California. His career began as a young political appointee in the Eisenhower Administration, where he was the administrative assistant to Secretary
Rusk, Dean, 1909-1994 (Item)
  • to 1947; Director of the U.S. State Department's Office of United Nations Affairs; Deputy Undersecretary of State from 1949 to 1950; and Assistant Secretary of state for Far Eastern Affairs from 1950 to 1951. During the Eisenhower administration, Rusk left