Photo by Thomas J. O'Halloran, from the U.S. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. LC-U9-99A-RC109.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight Eisenhower (second from left) and Mamie Eisenhower (right) watch television during the Republican National Convention in July of 1952. At this convention, in Chicago, Eisenhower was nominated for U.S. president; he won the job that November. The man on the left is unidentified.

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