Eisenhower

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Eisenhower is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between April 13, 2022 and December 09, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “he would become Vice President of the US under Eisenhower”; “JFK defeat Eisenhower’s VP two years later”. It most often appears alongside Harvard, Virginia, 16th Central Committee.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: April 13, 2022
  • Last seen: December 09, 2022

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Source Context

Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

April 13, 2022 · Original source
Jason Shea was born in Washington, DC in 1946. His father, Jackson Shea, was a former war hero turned politician; a few years after Shea's birth, he would become Vice President of the US under Eisenhower. His mother, Shawna Shea, was the daughter of a prominent lawyer. Jason had two older sisters, a younger brother, and three half-siblings from his father's first marriage.
December 09, 2022 · Original source
For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Education_Act . It's no coincidence this was signed the year after Sputnik, but the fear of Sputnik wasn't fear that the Soviets would win civilian gold medals in space, plant the red flag on the Moon first, it was fear of Soviet missiles -- if they could put a dog into orbitt they could certainly land a 1Mt nuke on Miami -- and indeed the notorious "missile gap" helped JFK defeat Eisenhower's VP two years later.