Dwight David Eisenhower II is an American author, public policy fellow, professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and eponym of the United States. Presidential retreat, Camp David.
Background
He is the only grandson of the 34th President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the son-in-law of the 37th President of the United States Richard Nixon. David Eisenhower was born on March 31, 1948, in West Point, Orange County, New York, to John and Barbara Eisenhower. His father was a United States. Army officer, and his grandfather was future President of the United States of America, and former Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe during World World War II, Dwight D. Eisenhower.
His father would go on to be a brigadier general in the United States. Army Reserve, United States. Ambassador to Belgium (1969–1971), and a renowned military historian.
Education
Eisenhower graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1966.
Career
He received his Bachelor of Arts 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. During this time, he was an officer on the United States Ship Albany in the Mediterranean Sea.
He then earned his Juris Doctor cum laude from The George Washington University Law School in 1976.
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, 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, author, and co-chair of the Foreign Policy Research Institute"s History Institute for Teachers.
From 2001–2003, he was editor of the journal Orbis published by FPRI. 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 World War World War II
The Creedence Clearwater Revival song "Fortunate Son" (1969) was inspired by the wedding of David Eisenhower and Julie Nixon.