Topical Guide 546

Mark Dorset

Personages, Historical: Dwight “Ike” Eisenhower

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IKE’S is a large, hard-edged room, formerly a firehouse, now a restaurant selling a version of fifties prosperity and complacency.

Norman Rockwell, “Freedom from Want,” 1943, oil on canvas, illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, March 6, 1943, collection of Norman Rockwell Museum. © SEPS: Curtis Licensing, Indianapolis. All rights reserved. Via the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.  

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The smiling face of the eponymous Ike is everywhere, in black-and-white photos and framed magazine covers on the walls, interspersed with artifacts of the era, chosen with no apparent theme or requirement other than that they come from the period and that they appear, from the exalted vantage of the present, odd and amusing, as do, in this context, the improbably jovial Ike himself and the beaming Mamie so often beside him.

The Denver Post, “President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his wife, Mamie, hold up the front page of a newspaper in 1950 announcing his election victory.”

See also:
Personages, Historical: Busby Berkeley TG 429, W. C. Fields TG 456

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