Eisenhower

Dwight Eisenhower was General of the Army (i.e., a five-star general) and the thirty-fourth president of the U.S. As general, he led U.S. and Allied Forces during World War II to victory over Axis Powers (i.e., Germany and Italy).

As president, Eisenhower did plenty. He championed the funding and development of an Interstate Highway System, which we still use today. He created the Advanced Reseach Projects Agency which developed a computer network that became the Internet. Eisenhower also created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (i.e., NASA).

Eisenhower appointed five Supreme Court judges. He oversaw the joining of Alaska and Hawaii as new states in the Union. He negotiated the end of the war in Korea. He desegrated the U.S. military and enforced court orders to integrate schools across the U.S. He also enabled the Lavender Scare that sought to bar and remove thousands of homosexuals from government service. And his administration deported over a million Mexican Americans to Mexico. Basically, Eisenhower was an active and effective president. For some he was a good president and for others not so good.

Note

This is another good set of stamps. The stamp of Eisenhower at the top is more like a photograph, which normally I don’t like. This one is well done and the shot of him is a good one. So I like this stamp. Another photo like stamp is the one of the Earth rising over the Moon, the Apollo 8. It’s actually a realistic drawing and not too bad. I like the stamp of W.C. Handy, called father of Blues. I should probably add some information about him to this page. I may do that one day.

Contains 14 spots: own 14 – 14 unused, 0 used.
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Stamp Details

The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.

spot	own	catalog	subject	description
1.1	✓	1369	American Legion	6c (mar 1969) comm., multicolor
1.2	✓	1383	Dwight Eisenhower	6c (oct 1969) comm., dark gray & red
1.3	✓	1386	Old Models William M. Hartnett	6c (dec 1969) comm., multicolor
1.4	✓	1370	Fourth of July Grandma Moses	6c (may 1969) comm., multicolor
2.1	✓	1374	John Wesley Powell	6c (aug 1969) comm., multicolor
2.2	✓	1372	W.C. Handy	6c (may 1969) comm., multicolor
2.3	✓	1375	Alabama Statehood	6c (aug 1969) comm., multicolor
3.1	✓	1385	Hope for the Crippled	6c (nov 1969) comm., multicolor
3.2	✓	1371	Apollo 8	6c (may 1969) comm., multicolor
3.3	✓	1373	California Statehood	6c (jul 1969) comm., multicolor
3.4	✓	1380	Daniel Webster	6c (sep 1969) comm., green
4.1	✓	1381	Professional Baseball	6c (sep 1969) comm., multicolor
4.2	✓	1382	Football	6c (sep 1969) comm., green & red
5.1	✓	1384	Winter Sunday in Norway Maine	6c (nov 1969) comm., multicolor

Footnotes

Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
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