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Dwight Eisenhower: June
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The Pledge of Allegiance was formally amended by Congress and signed into law by President Dwight Eisenhower on Flag Day, June 14, 1954. In a letter following the action, President Eisenhower thanked the K of C for its work in making the addition of the words "under God," to the Pledge a reality.
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Eisenhower has been portrayed by several actors, including Tom Selleck in the 2004 television program Ike: Countdown to D-Day which depicts the 90 days leading up to the D-Day Invasion. On June 6 of that year, Eisenhower's grandson, David, along with Roosevelt's grandson, David, and Arabella Churchill, granddaughter of British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, appeared on MSNBC during the network's coverage of the 60th anniversary of D-Day and talked about the roles their grandfathers played during the allied invasion.
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This volume contains papers presented at an Eisenhower Foundation symposium on 6-7 June 1969 at the Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kansas, in celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Normandy invasion. The papers, written by such men as Omar Bradley, Martin Blumenson, and former Reich Admiral Friedrich Ruger, cover not only the invasion itself but ... the extensive planning before D-Day.
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