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John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower was born on August 03, 1922 in Denver, Colorado, United States to US President Dwight Eisenhower and Mamie Doud.[1] He married Barbara Thompson on June 10, 1947. [2] He was a soldier, diplomat, author. John graduated from West Point in 1944 and earned a master's degree in English literature from Columbia University in 1950. After retiring from a military career (1944–1963), he was appointed ambassador to Belgium (1969–1971) by Richard Nixon. He has written three books: an account of the Battle of the Bulge: The Bitter Woods (1969); Strictly Personal (1974); Allies: Pearl Harbor to D-Day (1982). He died on December 21, 2013 in Trappe, Talbot, Maryland, United States [1][3]
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