Columbia’s campus is roiled by antisemitism, yet Ike amid WWII demanded atrocities against Jews be recorded — or risk ‘propaganda’ dismissals
Dwight D. Eisenhower’s career achievements are unparalleled in American history.
Popular two-term president. Supreme Commander of Allied forces in Europe in World War II. Led the epic D-Day invasion, helped reclaim postwar peace, launched NASA into orbit, sent America rolling down the interstate highway system.
Also mentored a then-future president, Ronald Reagan, on everything from national security to running for higher office.
Ike also served for five years as president of Columbia University.
Given the chaos and disruption on that campus in April 2024, however, it is almost unimaginable that a five-star general of his caliber would lead that institution of higher learning today.
He took the position at the top of the elite New York City Ivy League university in May 1948 — and resigned from it only after he won election to the U.S. presidency and moved into the White House in January 1953.