A photo gallery of historic images through contemporary times.
On November 5, 2024, I was honored to speak at The American Library in Paris, France. I was interviewed by renowned writer and American journalist, Elaine Sciolino. Before leaving for Europe, I voted by mail and then flew to France where I spoke on US election night. The message I delivered to the audience included some of what I have written in my New Year’s message.(I am seated on the left side of the roundtable, fielding questions from the students in white.)
On November 6, 2024, I went to the outskirts of Paris to visit the internationally recognized Lycée International de Saint Germain-en-Laye, which my grandfather, then the 1st Supreme Commander of NATO forces, helped found. This area had seen action during World War II, and according to the official history, “…[its] destiny was transformed in 1951 by General Eisenhower. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established itself in western Paris through the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers in Europe (SHAPE)…it was one of the pilot projects for one of the very first large-scale, industrial, quality housing estates. General Eisenhower, [was] delighted with the project,” and in June 1951 “[he] asked SHAPE’s treasurer, Admiral Guillaume Le Bigot, to create an international school to unite servicemen of twelve different nationalities. General Eisenhower pronounced a mythical formula for the place, recounted by Guillaume le Bigot: “un village, une chapelle, une école” (‘a village, a chapel, a School’).”
I was simply delighted to visit this remarkable place. I was impressed by both the rigorous curriculum, and by the remarkable talents of their multi-lingual students. No wonder this school is recognized in Europe and beyond! I had ample opportunity to interact with the students at more than three different events, including a campus-wide interview in the main auditorium. The photo shows the first gathering—a panel discussion with students at a reception in the main lobby of the Lycée. I will long remember this magical visit.
(Left to right) The panel discussion was chaired by journalist Hannah Vaughan Jones with the participation of the Director General of IAEA Rafael Mariano Grossi, President of Ghana Nana Akufo-Addo, US Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm and Susan Eisenhower, President of The Eisenhower Group, Inc. and co-founder of the Eisenhower Institute at Gettysburg College. Photo by IAEA.
Former Republican president Dwight D. Eisenhower and Democrat President Lyndon Johnson on Air Force 1 in 1965—they formed a successful working relationship.
The Prague painting being packed up. Photo by Susan Eisenhower.
The Prague painting at the Eisenhower Farm in Gettysburg. Photo by Susan Eisenhower.
Photo taken on the porch at the Eisenhower Farm in Gettysburg, circa 1957. From left, Mary, Susan, David and Anne. Notice that Susan and Anne are wearing the same dress!Just after meeting the Queen at a garden party before a dinner held the following evening in 2007. From left, Ambassador Sir David Manning, Susan Eisenhower over the Queen’s shoulder standing next to Richard Fisher.
Anne Eisenhower speaks at the Dwight D Eisenhower Global Awards Gala 2021 held by BCIU (Business Council for International Understanding).Susan Eisenhower and Mikhael Gorbachev meet at the Kremlin, Moscow, circa 1987. Regrettably, the photo has some damage to the left side.
I am pictured here with Carole Brookins, the indispensable leader of The First Alliance Foundation, who did so much to make the 75th anniversary of D-Day not just a lasting memory, but one that deepened the relationships and ties between the US and French militaries. We are laying wreaths at the Eisenhower Statue in Bayeux, not far from the Normandy coastline.
A photo by Susan Eisenhower of the Normandy beaches taken from a Black Hawk helicopter on June 6, 2019.
In this photograph, featured in Breaking Free: A Memoir of Love and Revolution, from left, Susan Eisenhower, Dr. Roald Sagdeev and Dr. Andrei Sakharov. For several years, before Sakharov’s death in late 1989, these three colleagues and friends served on the Board of the International Foundation, the first western-styled foundation in Soviet and new Russian history. The chairman was Jerome Wiesner, (not pictured here), former Advisor to President John F. Kennedy and former President of MIT. Other American board members included former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and Father Theodore Hesburgh, former president of Notre Dame.
US President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961) and Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek (1956-1961) are greeted with a ticker-tape parade as they drive through Avenida Rio Branco in Rio de Janeiro on February 24, 1960.President Eisenhower receives the keys to Brasilia.
Photo of President Eisenhower taken with President Juscelino Kubitschek and First Lady Sarah Kubitschek.Commemorative plaque honoring President Eisenhower’s visit to Brasilia and the laying of the foundation for the new US Embassy while the new capital city of Brazil was still under construction.
Presidents Eisenhower and Kubitschek waving to on-lookers from the red carpet rolled out from the airplane on their arrival.
In the thick of the rainforest.
Tom Lovejoy’s guests at Camp 41. To get there you had to drive for hours from Manaus, then take a right and drive more than two hours down an untreated trail—what I called “the longest and most remote driveway in the world.” Susan is in the pink shirt and Tom Lovejoy is standing next to her with binoculars around his neck.
Susan and her birthday cake. Camp 41, somewhere hours and hours from Manaus, Brazil, in the Amazon rainforest. Also pictured: Adele Simmons, former President of the MacArthur Foundation, and Tom Lovejoy’s guests.
(From left) Elizabeth Dole, former Senator from North Carolina (2003-2009), Secretary of Labor (1989-1990), Secretary of Transportation (1983-1987) and wife of Senator Bob Dole; Senator Bob Dole; and Susan Eisenhower. Photo taken in Normandy, France, 2009.Susan Eisenhower with Secretary George Shultz at MIT’s Energy Initiative Board meeting. October 2019
Susan Eisenhower and Senator Bob Dole in Normandy, France, 2009.Susan Eisenhower with Senators Dole and Warner. World War II Foundation event 2019.
Mamie as a teenager.State Dinner at the White House on Queen Elizabeth II’s first visit to the United States. October 17, 1958. She stayed overnight on the second floor of the mansion in the presidential private apartments.
Mamie and Ike on their wedding day, July 1, 1916.Mamie on her 80th birthday.
Ike and Mamie after World War II.
Photo taken by Susan Eisenhower on a walk along the beach in Maine during the wintertime.
Portland Head Light, Fort Williams Park, Maine.
Photo taken by Susan Eisenhower on a walk along the beach in Maine during the wintertime.
Former Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Susan Eisenhower take a close look at Dwight Eisenhower’s painting of another British prime minister, Winston Churchill.NTI’s board meeting in 2002. From Left, Charles Curtis, Rolf Ekeus, Susan Eisenhower, Senator Pete Domenici, Senator Richard Lugar, Ted Turner, Senator Sam Nunn, General Eugene Habiger, Jessica Mathews, Secretary of Defense William Perry, and Andrei Kokoshin
Ike and Mamie Eisenhower with their first son Doud (“Icky”) Dwight Eisenhower.
The Eisenhower Memorial, Washington, DC
Doud (“Icky”) Dwight Eisenhower at the age of three, shortly before his death in 1921.
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