Dwight D. Eisenhower

== Post-presidency (1961–1969) ==
[[File:LBJ and Eisenhower.jpg|thumb|[[Lyndon B. Johnson|President Lyndon Johnson]] with Eisenhower aboard [[Air Force One]] in October 1965]]
[[File:Funeral services for Dwight D. Eisenhower, March 1969.jpg|thumb|Eisenhower's funeral service]]
[[File:DDEisenhowerGrave3.jpg|thumb|Graves of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Doud Dwight "Icky" Eisenhower and Mamie Eisenhower in Abilene, Kansas]]

Following the presidency, Eisenhower moved to the place where he and Mamie had spent much of their post-war time, a working farm adjacent to the [[Battle of Gettysburg|battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania]], {{convert|70|mi}} from his ancestral home in Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1985-08-08/news/8502010850_1_ambulance-service-steady-growth-post-office |title=Tiny Pennsylvania Town An Escape From Modernity |newspaper=[[Sun-Sentinel]] |date=August 8, 1985 |first=Mary |last=Klaus |access-date=January 4, 2016 |quote=From this farm the family migrated to Kansas in the summer of 1878. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160225045723/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1985-08-08/news/8502010850_1_ambulance-service-steady-growth-post-office |archive-date=February 25, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://civilwar.gratzpa.org/2010/11/eisenhower-family-civil-war-veterans/ |title=Eisenhower Family Civil War Veterans |first=Norman |last=Gasbarro |date=November 29, 2010 |access-date=January 4, 2016 |quote=a stately old home, identified as the ancestral home of President Dwight D. Eisenhower |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160225182344/http://civilwar.gratzpa.org/2010/11/eisenhower-family-civil-war-veterans/ |archive-date=February 25, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref> They also maintained a retirement home in [[Palm Desert, California]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Historical Society of Palm Desert|title=Palm Desert|year=2009|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-0738559643|page=103|author2=Rover, Hal |author3=Kousken, Kim |author4= Romer, Brett }}</ref>

After leaving office, Eisenhower did not completely retreat from political life. He flew to San Antonio, where he had been stationed years earlier, to support [[John W. Goode]], the unsuccessful Republican candidate against the Democrat [[Henry B. Gonzalez]] for [[Texas's 20th congressional district]] seat.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utsa/00306/00306-P.html|title=Eisenhower, Dwight D.: visit to San Antonio in behalf of John Goode and Henry Catto, Jr.; downtown San Antonio|publisher=University of Texas Library|date=October 29, 1961|access-date=May 17, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160602031931/http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utsa/00306/00306-P.html|archive-date=June 2, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> He addressed the [[1964 Republican National Convention]], in San Francisco, and appeared with party nominee [[Barry Goldwater]] in a campaign commercial.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=January 20, 2011 |url=http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/commercials/1964/ike-at-gettysburg |title=Ike at Gettysburg (Goldwater, 1964) |work=1964: Johnson vs. Goldwater |publisher=Museum of the Moving Image |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019120627/http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/commercials/1964/ike-at-gettysburg |archive-date=October 19, 2013 }}</ref> That endorsement came somewhat reluctantly, because Goldwater had in the late 1950s criticized Eisenhower's administration as "a dime-store New Deal".<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.newsday.com/long-island/politics/dwight-eisenhower-helped-barry-goldwater-s-failed-1964-election-bid-1.11783516 |newspaper=[[Newsday]] |title=When an ex-president helped an 'extreme' Republican candidate |date=May 11, 2016 |access-date=December 9, 2016 |first=William |last=Goldschlag |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220141200/http://www.newsday.com/long-island/politics/dwight-eisenhower-helped-barry-goldwater-s-failed-1964-election-bid-1.11783516 |archive-date=December 20, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref> On January 20, 1969, [[First inauguration of Richard Nixon|the day Nixon was inaugurated as President]], Eisenhower issued a statement praising his former vice president and calling it a "day for rejoicing".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1969/01/21/page/5/article/inauguration-is-a-day-for-rejoicing-ike|title=Inauguration Is a Day For Rejoicing: Ike|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=January 21, 1969|access-date=August 19, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170819103946/http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1969/01/21/page/5/article/inauguration-is-a-day-for-rejoicing-ike/|archive-date=August 19, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Death ===
At 12:25&nbsp;p.m. on March 28, 1969, Eisenhower died from [[congestive heart failure]] at [[Walter Reed Army Medical Center]] in Washington, D.C., at age 78.<ref>{{cite news|title = Eisenhower Dead at 78 as Ailing Heart Fails; Rites Will Start Today|last = Belair|first = Felix Jr.|date = March 29, 1969|newspaper = [[The New York Times]]|page= 1}}</ref> The following day, his body was moved to the [[Washington National Cathedral]]'s Bethlehem Chapel, where he lay in repose for 28 hours.<ref name="FinalPost">{{cite web|title=Dwight D. Eisenhower – Final Post|url=https://eisenhower.archives.gov/all_about_ike/final_post.html|publisher=Presidential Libraries System, National Archives and Records Administration|access-date=May 19, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190308051349/https://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/all_about_ike/final_post.html|archive-date=March 8, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> He was then transported to the [[United States Capitol]], where he [[Lying in state#United States|lay in state]] in the [[Capitol Rotunda]] on March 30 and 31.<ref>{{cite web|title=Lying in State or in Honor|url=https://www.aoc.gov/nations-stage/lying-state-honor|publisher=Architect of the Capitol|accessdate=May 19, 2019|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190518015734/https://www.aoc.gov/nations-stage/lying-state-honor|archivedate=May 18, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> A [[state funeral]] was conducted at the Washington National Cathedral on March 31.<ref name="Funeral">{{cite news |title=World's Leaders Join in Services for Eisenhower |first=Felix Jr. |last=Belair |newspaper=The New York Times |date=April 1, 1969 |page=1}}</ref> The president and First Lady, Richard and Pat Nixon, attended, as did former president Lyndon Johnson. Also among the 2,000 guests that were invited were the UN Secretary-General [[U Thant]] and 191 foreign delegates from 78 countries, including 10 foreign [[heads of state|heads of state and government]]. Guests included President [[Charles de Gaulle]] of France, who was in the United States for the first time since the [[state funeral of John F. Kennedy]],<ref>{{cite news|title=Nixon will Meet with De Gaulle Today|first=Peter|last=Grose|newspaper=The New York Times|date=March 31, 1969|page=1|quote=President de Gaulle arrived by plane from Paris, on his first visit to the United States since the funeral of President Kennedy in 1963.}}</ref> Chancellor [[Kurt-Georg Kiesinger]] of West Germany, [[Baudouin of Belgium|King Baudouin]] of Belgium and Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran.<ref name="Funeral" />

The service included the singing of [[Jean-Baptiste Faure|Faure's]] "The Palms", and the playing of the hymn "[[Onward, Christian Soldiers]]".<ref>{{cite news|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|title=For A Modest Man: A Simple Funeral Honors Ike|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DS19690401.2.4&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1|work=[[The Desert Sun]]|agency=[[United Press International|UPI]]|date=April 1, 1969|volume=42|issue=205|via=[[California Digital Newspaper Collection]], Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research at the University of California Riverside|access-date=May 19, 2019}}</ref>

That evening, Eisenhower's body was placed onto a special [[funeral train]] for its journey from the capital to his hometown of [[Abilene, Kansas]]. First incorporated into President [[Funeral and burial of Abraham Lincoln|Abraham Lincoln's funeral]] in 1865, a funeral train would not be part of a US state funeral again until [[Death and state funeral of George H. W. Bush|2018]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Weissert|first1=Will|last2=Phillip|first2=David J.|agency=The Associated Press|url=https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2018/12/06/bushes-depart-on-first-presidential-funeral-train-since-1969/|title=Bushes depart on first presidential funeral train since 1969|date=December 6, 2018|website=MilitaryTimes.com|publisher=Sightline Media Group|access-date=May 19, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190809220531/https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2018/12/06/bushes-depart-on-first-presidential-funeral-train-since-1969/|archive-date=August 9, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> Eisenhower is buried inside the Place of Meditation, the chapel on the grounds of the [[Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home|Eisenhower Presidential Center]] in Abilene. As requested, he was buried in a [[G.I. (military)|Government Issue]] casket, wearing his [[Eisenhower jacket|World War II uniform]], decorated with Army Distinguished Service Medal with three oak leaf clusters, Navy Distinguished Service Medal, and the Legion of Merit. Buried alongside Eisenhower are his son Doud, who died at age 3 in 1921, and wife Mamie, who died in 1979.<ref name=FinalPost/>

President Richard Nixon eulogized Eisenhower in 1969, saying:

{{blockquote|Some men are considered great because they lead great armies or they lead powerful nations. For eight years now, Dwight Eisenhower has neither commanded an army nor led a nation; and yet he remained through his final days the world's most admired and respected man, truly the first citizen of the world.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.upi.com/Archives/Audio/1969/Eisenhower-Judy-Garland-Die/|title=1969 Year in Review: Eisenhower, Judy Garland die|publisher=UPI|date=October 25, 2005|access-date=December 19, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161010085652/http://www.upi.com/Archives/Audio/1969/Eisenhower-Judy-Garland-Die/|archive-date=October 10, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>}}