President Eisenhower’s notes on the Suez Crisis
On November 1, 1956, after a morning meeting regarding the Suez Crisis, President Eisenhower wrote these notes and sent them to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles.
Solving the world’s problems
This photograph of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was taken on October 30, 1956. The two were discussing the U.S. response...
Suez, 1956
After Israel invaded the Sinai Peninsula on October 29, 1956, President Eisenhower held an urgent meeting with his national security advisors. A few months earlier,...
Suez Canal crisis
This August 12, 1956, memorandum recounts a meeting between President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, and other advisers about Egypt’s...
U-2 cover story
President Eisenhower was told that the U-2 spy plane had a self-destruct mechanism that would prevent the Soviets from discovering its true purpose. This plan was...