![]() ![]() ![]() Graduating from West Point in 1944, he was a combat officer in World War II and Korea, rising to the Regular Army rank of lieutenant colonel and then to brigadier general in the reserves. Like his father, John Eisenhower was initially a military careerist. “It’s also the anniversary of Three Mile Island,” said Eisenhower, who lives in southeast Pennsylvania near both the infamous nuclear power plant and his father’s famous Gettysburg farm. A weighty pause came into the conversation when it was noted that the day of the interview was the 20th anniversary of the supreme commander’s death. Taller and thinner than the late president, yet bearing an eerily close resemblance in his clear blue eyes and still boyish and very American face, the son speaks of “Dad” with much reverence. It’s not that the son manifests any resentment of a life spent so much in another’s shadow. ![]()
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