This life-sized sculpture of American President Dwight Eisenhower is probably made of a plastic polymer or fiberglass. He is depicted standing, wearing a business suit and looking ahead. He stands next to a similar statue of a standing Franklin Roosevelt.
It is located in Petersen House, the location of Abraham Lincoln's death which now serves as a free museum. There is no information at the site about the artist or date.
The placard accompanying the work indicates that Eisenhower, in 1957, signed the first major civil rights legislation since Reconstruction.
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Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (pronounced /'a?z?nha??r/, eye-z?n-how-?r; born David Dwight Eisenhower; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe; he had responsibility for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45 from the Western Front. In 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO. He was the last U.S. President to have been born in the 19th century.
Eisenhower was of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry and was raised in a large family in Kansas by parents with a strong religious background. He attended and graduated from West Point and later married and had two sons. After World War II, Eisenhower served as Army Chief of Staff under President Harry S. Truman and then accepted the post of President at Columbia University.
Eisenhower entered the 1952 presidential race as a Republican to counter the non-interventionism of Senator Robert A. Taft and to crusade against "Communism, Korea and corruption". He won by a landslide, defeating Democratic candidate Adlai Stevenson and temporarily upending the New Deal Coalition. In the first year of his presidency, Eisenhower deposed the prime minister of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh, in the 1953 Iranian coup d'état and used nuclear threats to conclude the Korean War with China. His New Look policy of nuclear deterrence gave priority to inexpensive nuclear weapons while reducing the funding for conventional military forces; the goal was to keep pressure on the Soviet Union and reduce federal deficits. In 1954, Eisenhower first articulated the domino theory in his description of the threat presented to the free world by the spread of communism and anti-colonial movements in the wake of the Communist victory in the First Indochina War. Congress agreed to his request in 1955 for the Formosa Resolution, which obliged the U.S. to militarily support the pro-Western Republic of China in Taiwan and take an adversarial position against the People's Republic of China (on the Chinese mainland). After the Soviet Union launched the world's first artificial satellite in 1957, Eisenhower authorized the establishment of NASA, which led to a space race. Eisenhower forced Israel, the UK, and France to end their invasion of Egypt during the Suez Crisis of 1956, while simultaneously condemning the Soviet invasion of Hungary during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. In 1958, he sent 15,000 U.S. troops to Lebanon to prevent the pro-Western government from falling to a Nasser-inspired revolution. Near the end of his term, his efforts to set up a summit meeting with the Soviets collapsed because of the U-2 incident. In his 1961 farewell address to the nation, Eisenhower expressed his concerns about the dangers of corporate control of Congress and massive military spending, especially deficit spending and government contracts to private military manufacturers, and coined the term "Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex".'