Dwight D. Eisenhower

6 May 1960

United States President Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1960.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which became NASA.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.

Arkansas' Governor used the National Guard to prevent nine Black students from entering school.

Dwight D. Eisenhower became the first president to fly in a helicopter.

President Eisenhower won his second term with the most significant Republican win since Abraham Lincoln's in 1860.

President Eisenhower demanded that all US currency would feature the words 'In God We Trust.'

Eisenhower signed a farm bill that allowed the government to store agricultural surplus.

President Eisenhower stepped in to warn the US not to intervene in Vietnam.

Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his 'Atoms for Peace' speech at the United Nations in New York.