Dwight D. Eisenhower age of three. Eisenhower was mostly reticent to discuss his death. Their second son, John Eisenhower (1922–2013), was born in Denver, Colorado. 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. Coincidentally, John 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: David, Barbara Ann, Susan Elaine and Mary Jean. David, after whom Camp David is named, married Richard Nixon's daughter Julie in 1968. Eisenhower was a golf
Military career of Dwight D. Eisenhower Military career of Dwight D. Eisenhower The military career of Dwight D. Eisenhower encompassed over forty six years of active service. Entering the United States Military Academy in June 1911, Eisenhower had a "spectacular" 1912 football touchdown praised by the "New York Herald". The week after sharing a tackle of Jim Thorpe , Eisenhower's sports career ended with a severe knee injury. Eisenhower graduated in 1915 ranked 61st in a class of 164. The risk, however, that the football injury would cause the government to later have to give Eisenhower a medical discharge and pension, almost caused the army to