The Relationship Between Eisenhower and Churchill: Partnership, Disagreement (2002)
Eisenhower met and fell in love with
Mamie Geneva Doud of
Boone, Iowa, six years his junior, while he was stationed in
Texas.[8] He and her family were also immediately taken with one another. He proposed to her on
Valentine's Day in
1916.[36] A
November wedding date in
Denver was moved up to July 1 due to the pending
U.S. entry into
World War I. In their first 35 years of marriage, they moved many times.[37]
The Eisenhowers had two sons. Doud
Dwight "
Icky" Eisenhower was born
September 24,
1917, and died of scarlet fever on January 2,
1921, at the age of three;[38] Eisenhower was mostly reticent to discuss his death.[39] Their second son,
John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower, was born on August 3,
1922, while they were in
Panama.
John served in the
United States Army, retired as a brigadier general, became an author and served as
U.S. Ambassador to
Belgium from
1969 to
1971. John, coincidentally, graduated from
West Point on
D-Day,
June 6, 1944. He married
Barbara Jean Thompson on June 10,
1947. John and Barbara had four children: Dwight
David II "
David",
Barbara Ann,
Susan Elaine and
Mary Jean. David, after whom
Camp David is named,[40] married
Richard Nixon's daughter
Julie in
1968. John died on
December 21,
2013.[41]
Eisenhower was a golf enthusiast later in life, and joined the
Augusta National Golf Club in 1948.[42] He played golf frequently during and after his presidency and was unreserved in expressing his passion for the game, to the
point of golfing during winter, and ordered his golf balls painted black so he could see them better against snow on the ground. He had a small, basic golf facility installed at Camp David, and became close friends with the
Augusta National Chairman
Clifford Roberts, inviting
Roberts to stay at the
White House on several occasions; Roberts, an investment broker, also handled the Eisenhower family's investments. Roberts also advised Eisenhower on tax aspects of publishing his memoirs, which proved financially lucrative.[42]
After golf, oil painting was Eisenhower's second hobby.[39] While at
Columbia University, Eisenhower began the art after watching
Thomas E. Stephens paint Mamie's portrait. Eisenhower painted about 260 oils during the last 20 years of his life to relax, mostly landscapes but also portraits of subjects such as Mamie, their grandchildren,
General Montgomery,
George Washington, and
Abraham Lincoln.[43]
Wendy Beckett stated that Eisenhower's work, "simple and earnest, rather cause us to wonder at the hidden depths of this reticent president". A conservative in both art and politics, he in a 1962 speech denounced modern art as "a piece of canvas that looks like a broken-down
Tin Lizzie, loaded with paint, has been driven over it."[39]
Angels in the Outfield was Eisenhower's favorite movie
.[44] His favorite reading material for relaxation were the
Western novels of
Zane Grey.[45] With his excellent memory and ability to focus, Eisenhower was skilled at card games. He learned poker, which he called his "favorite indoor sport," in
Abilene. Eisenhower recorded West Point classmates' poker losses for payment after graduation, and later stopped playing because his opponents resented having to pay him.
A classmate reported that after learning to play contract bridge at West Point, Eisenhower played the game six nights a week for five months.
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Churchill has been portrayed in film and television on multiple occasions. Portrayals of Churchill include
Dudley Field Malone (
An American in Paris, 1951);
Peter Sellers (
The Man Who Never Was,
1956);
Richard Burton (
Winston Churchill:
The Valiant Years,
1961);
Simon Ward (
Young Winston,
1972);
Warren Clarke (
Jennie:
Lady Randolph Churchill,
1974);
Wensley Pithey (
Edward and Mrs Simpson, 1978);
Timothy West (
Churchill and the Generals,
1979,
Hiroshima,
1995);
William Hootkins (
The Life and Times of
David Lloyd George,
1981);
Robert Hardy (Winston Churchill:
The Wilderness Years, 1981,
War and Remembrance,
1989);
Bob Hoskins (
World War II: When
Lions Roared
1994);
Albert Finney (
The Gathering Storm 2002);
Ian Mune (Ike:
Countdown to D-Day, 2004);
Rod Taylor (
Inglourious Basterds, 2009);
Brendan Gleeson (
Into the Storm, 2009);
Ian McNeice (
Doctor Who: "
Victory of the Daleks"; "
The Pandorica Opens"; "
The Wedding of River Song" in
2010 and
2011);
Timothy Spall (
The King's Speech, 2010).
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