US and Iran: A brief history of how decades of mistrust and bad blood led to open warfare#BarackObama #BillClinton #DwightEisenhower #GeorgeBush #Iran #Irannucleardeal #Irannuclearprogram #Iranpolicy #IranUSrelations #Israel #Nucleararms #Nuclearpower #Nuclearrisks #TrumpAdministration #Trumpadminis
Ghost of Suez haunts Trump’s Iran war#AnthonyEden #Block1 #DonaldTrump #DwightEisenhower #IranNukes #IranWar #Opinion #SuezCanalCrisis #USImperialism
#DwightEisenhower died #OnThisDay in 1969; a skillful Allied leader in World War II, he was a mixed bag as president & his authorization of coups in Guatemala & Iran resulted in disaster; nonetheless, Ike's warning about the military/industrial complex was prescient:
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You know the rules of engagement, "Never fight a land war in Asia" by #WW2 Special Five Generals #BernardMontgomery, #DwightEisenhower & #DouglasMacArthur. More famously, it appeared in the book & movie #ThePrincessBride. The phrase suggest that armies that try to take land in #Asia inevitably fail.
DYK Republican Senator #EverettDirksen in 1954 said it was “no picnic” to have to purge #gays & #lesbians out of the military? But he joined #JoeMcCarthy, #DwightEisenhower, & #HarryTruman to stamp out early 20thC acceptance of queers. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #QueerHistory
DYK #HarryTruman & #DwightEisenhower dragged #queers out of the closet w/blue dishonorable discharges & making it illegal for gays & lesbians to serve in the military or the federal government or work for its contractors? HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #QueerHistory
DYK the #Navy’s 1957 #CrittendenReport found #GayMen served satisfactorily? It was released by #CourtOrder in 1977, but meanwhile the #military of #DwightEisenhower & successive presidents gave #queers #DishonorableDischarges. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #QueerHistory
In his case there seems to be no final answer to the question "How stupid can you get" - John A Farrell quoting Dwight Eisenhower's diaries in his biography of Richard Nixon (he was not referring to Nixon)
John A Farrell quoting Dwight Eisenhower's diaries in his biography of Richard Nixon (fun fact: he was not referring to Nixon) #JohnAFarrell #RichardNixon #DwightEisenhower #stupid #presidents #politics
In the Lawrence, KS area? Don't miss your chance to hear author Martin Mack Teasley talk about his book The Real Ike: Eisenhower Fact and Fiction, Monday, February 16, starting at 7:00PM CST, @ravenbookstore.bsky.social
#dwighteisenhower #ravenbookstore #lawrenceks #booktalk #eisenhower #upkansas
The idea of sex hoodlums, hanging around schools w/comic books & bubble gum to lure their victims, filled lots of parents w/a stark new terror. Ghosts of #QueerHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #DwightEisenhower, #JEdgarHoover #RoyKohn #LavenderMenace #HarryTruman
When George Patton slapped two American soldiers with shell shock (battle fatigue) in a hospital, Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower ordered him to apologize to the men.
#ICE #ICEGESTAPO #IceOut #ICEagents #policebrutality #georgepatton #generalpatton #patton #dwighteisenhower #generaleisenhower
DYK the 1952 APA named #homosexuality a mental disorder on the heels of executive orders by #HarryTruman & #DwightEisenhower, which threw #queers out of federal government & jobs w/federal contractors. More politics & religion than science! HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #QueerHistory
The #queer community came together for its ill, & its demonstration of love & care overwhelmed the #homophobia that had plagued the U.S. since the lavender scare engineered by #HarryTruman & #DwightEisenhower following WorldWar II. #GayMarriage #QueerHistory
DYK Presidents #HarryTruman & #DwightEisenhower borrowed #homophobia from #Christianity & made it national policy by demanding it in the military, civil service, & w/federal contractors? The #GOP has made it a party line ever since.
HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #SCOTUSisTooCatholic
DYK many #CrossDressers, #DragQueens, #transvestites & #transwomen refused to feel shame during police raids? How did prejudice & stigma against #LGBT people begin? Ghosts of #HistSex haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #JoeMcCarthy #DwightEisenhower #HarryTruman #QueerHistory #Weegee
DYK #DwightEisenhower was responsible for drumming #gays & #lesbians out of the military & outing them in their hometowns AFTER they helped him win WorldWarII? He even took away their Vets benefits & unemployment! The #GOP’s history of hypocrisy is long. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
US likes #RevisionistHistory taught in schools 2 hide crimes.
US toppled Guatemala’s President #JuanJoseArevalo 4 #UnitedFruitCompany.
Arévalo won election & passed minimum wages,land reform & universal suffrage. #DwightEisenhower called him communist & put in a dictator.
Destabilized #LatinAmerica
DYK smiley #DwightEisenhower won WWII w/a team including #gay & #lesbian soldiers & sailors? After he won it w/them he took away their pensions & made it illegal for them to serve in the military or work for the feds or their contractors. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #QueerHistory
Modified photo of flowers on a coffee plant.
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Three years to the day, I covered the first Veterans Day Proclamation, issued by then-President Dwight Eisenhower 51 years to the day. The proclamations continue. On November 10, 2025 […]
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That made it difficult for them to find work, go to school, or get insurance. And they could not collect unemployment benefits. Many had to leave home. Some tried to kill themselves. That’s how #DwightEisenhower thanked his vets. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #QueerHistory
DYK #DwightEisenhower made it illegal for #queers to serve in the military, work for the federal government or its contractors & led to laws against #QueerSex? His troops continued imprisonment of queers freed from Nazi concentration camps! HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #QueerHistory
#MarsHillBlog Post The Eisenhower Sword, US/UK Relations, and Donald Trump #DonaldTrump #ToddArrington #EisenhowerLibrary #DwightEisenhower #USPresidents #USA #KingCharlesIII #UnitedKingdom paulburgin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
Celebrate America's milestone with the wide-open welcome of Kansas featured in Destinations magazine. Click, read the article and plan your own Kansas Road Trip! aba.ygsclicbook.com/pubs/destina... #Kansas250 #dwighteisenhower @travelks.bsky.social 2/2
I think DDE was the last truly decent Republican.
I could be wrong, but that's what I believe. 🤔🤷♀️
#DwightEisenhower #DwightDEisenhower #DDE
@extracredits.bsky.social / Extra History: "American Mass Deportation 1: The First Crackdown | US History | Extra History" / #Trump #DwightEisenhower #Immigration #OperationWetback #AlienAndSeditionActs #ChineseExclusionAct #TruckeeMethod
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Central Photographic Agency (CAF) in Warsaw - The book: Warszawa 1945-1970 (Publisher: Wydawnictwo Sport i Turystyka, Warszawa, 1970) page 58 Image from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower
#OTD in 1945
‘General #DwightEisenhower during his visit in #Warsaw, capital of #Poland. Picture taken on the Old Town Square, destroyed in 1944 by German forces after supression of Warsaw Uprising (1944). Right, General Marian Spychalski.’ 1 September 1945.
#WW2
DYK many #CrossDressers, #DragQueens, #transvestites & #transwomen refused to feel shame during police raids? How did prejudice & stigma against #LGBT people begin? Ghosts of #HistSex haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #JoeMcCarthy #DwightEisenhower #HarryTruman #QueerHistory #Weegee
