Do you like Ike?

If so, you might enjoy my latest Suite101 contribution, "Places That Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower Lived: The Many Homes of One of America's First Couples from 1915 to 1939." (Teaser: Thirty-fourth president Dwight D. Eisenhower and his wife, Mamie, called many places home. These places included numerous Army bases and, of course, the White House...) Anyway, Ike kinda, sorta got the Civil Rights ball rolling during his presidency (1953-61), and I hear that his First Lady may have unknowingly cost Ike's veep-- one Richard M. Nixon-- the 1960 election and wasn't too terribly fond of Sen. Joe McCarthy (R-Wisconsin). Mrs. Eisenhower was also the person who was instrumental in seeing to it that African-American children were allowed to participate in the annual Easter Egg Hunt on the White House lawn. I won't go so far as to say that I'm an Ike aficianado, but he did have an interesting life, though. That said, the link to this and all my other articles is, as always: http//www.suite101.com/writer_articles.cfm/obamagirl08.