David Eisenhower
Dwight David Eisenhower II (born March 31, 1948) is an American author, public policy fellow, professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and eponym of the U.S. presidential retreat Camp David. He is the grandson of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and First Lady Mamie Eisenhower, and a son-in-law of President Richard Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon.
This article is about the grandson of the U.S. president. For the 34th U.S. president, see Dwight David Eisenhower.
David Eisenhower
Author, professor
3, including Jennie
- John Eisenhower (father)
- Barbara Thompson (mother)
Dwight Eisenhower (grandfather)
Richard Nixon (father-in-law)
Mamie Eisenhower (grandmother)
Pat Nixon (mother-in-law)
Education[edit]
Eisenhower graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1966. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in history cum laude from Amherst College in 1970. After college, he served for three years as an officer in the United States Naval Reserve.[2] During this time, he was assigned to the USS Albany in the Mediterranean Sea.[3] He then earned his J.D. degree cum laude from The George Washington University Law School in 1976.[4]
He was at least loosely identified with the Nixon administration, when he accepted a request to attend the funeral of Dan Mitrione in 1970, the operative whose activities in training Uruguayan police in torture techniques, when later publicized, caused profound controversy,[5] although there has been no suggestion that Eisenhower had any knowledge of Mitrione's controversial activities.
He is today a teaching adjunct and public policy fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania,[6][7] author,[4] and co-chair of the Foreign Policy Research Institute's History Institute for Teachers. From 2001 to 2003, he was editor of Orbis, a quarterly published by the institute.[4]
Eisenhower was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1987 for his work Eisenhower At War, 1943-1945 about the Allied leadership during World War II.[4][8]
He is the host of a public television series called The Whole Truth with David Eisenhower, distributed by American Public Television.[9]