Editing Dwight D. Eisenhower (section)

== Personal life ==
{{main|Family of Dwight D. Eisenhower}}
While Eisenhower was stationed in Texas, he met Mamie Doud of [[Boone, Iowa]].{{r|barnett19421109}} They were immediately taken with each other. He proposed to her on [[Valentine's Day]] in 1916.<ref>{{cite web | url =https://highways.dot.gov/public-roads/marchapril-2003/man-who-changed-america-part-i | title =The Man Who Changed America, Part I | first =Richard F. | last =Weingroff | publisher =[[Federal Highway Administration|Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)]] | date =March–April 2003 | access-date =April 17, 2013 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20130509120831/http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/03mar/05.cfm | archive-date =May 9, 2013 | url-status =live }}</ref> A November wedding date in [[Denver]], Colorado, was moved up to July 1 due to the impending [[American entry into World War I]]; Funston approved 10 days of leave for their wedding.<ref>{{Cite book |last=O'Connell |first=Robert L. |title=Team America |publisher=[[HarperCollins]] |year=2022 |isbn=9780062883322 |edition=1st |page=122}}</ref> The Eisenhowers moved many times during their first 35 years of marriage.<ref>{{harvnb|Ambrose|1983|pp=59–60}}</ref>

The Eisenhowers had two sons. In late 1917 while he was in charge of training at [[Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia|Fort Oglethorpe]] in [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], his wife Mamie had their first son, [[Family of Dwight D. Eisenhower#Doud Eisenhower|Doud Dwight "Icky" Eisenhower]], who died of [[scarlet fever]] at the age of three.<ref>{{Cite book|author=Berger-Knorr, Lawrence|title=The Pennsylvania Relations of Dwight D. Eisenhower|page=8}}</ref> Eisenhower was mostly reluctant to discuss his death.{{r|beckett}} Their second son, [[John Eisenhower]], was born in Denver.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/john-sd-eisenhower-historian-and-presidents-son-dies-at-91/2013/12/21/2f344aae-6a9a-11e3-ae56-22de072140a2_story.html |title=John S.D. Eisenhower dies; historian and president's son was 91 |date=December 21, 2013 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=August 16, 2017 |first1=Martin |last1=Weil |first2=Emily |last2=Langer |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170817082546/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/john-sd-eisenhower-historian-and-presidents-son-dies-at-91/2013/12/21/2f344aae-6a9a-11e3-ae56-22de072140a2_story.html |archive-date=August 17, 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> John served in the [[United States Army]], retired as a brigadier general, became an author and served as [[Diplomatic missions of Belgium|Ambassador to Belgium]] from 1969 to 1971. He married Barbara Jean Thompson and had four children: [[David Eisenhower|David]], Barbara Ann, [[Susan Eisenhower|Susan Elaine]] and [[Mary Jean Eisenhower|Mary Jean]]. David, after whom [[Camp David]] is named,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/research/online_documents/camp_david.html |title=Camp David |publisher=Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum, and Boyhood Home |quote=Ike re-named it 'Camp David' in honor of his grandson David Eisenhower |access-date=August 16, 2017  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170706063352/https://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/research/online_documents/camp_david.html |archive-date=July 6, 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> married [[Richard Nixon]]'s daughter [[Julie Nixon Eisenhower|Julie]] in 1968.

[[File:Mamie eisenhower.gif|thumb|upright=0.9|left|Mamie Eisenhower, painted in 1953 by Thomas E. Stephens]]

Eisenhower was a golf enthusiast later in life, and he joined the [[Augusta National Golf Club]] in 1948.<ref>{{harvnb|Owen|1999|pp=165–167}}</ref> He played golf frequently during and after his presidency and was unreserved in his passion for the game, to the point of golfing during winter; he ordered his golf balls painted black so he could see them better against snow. He had a basic golf facility installed at Camp David, and he became close friends with the Augusta National Chairman [[Clifford Roberts]], inviting Roberts to stay at the [[White House]] on numerous occasions.<ref>{{harvnb|Owen|1999|p=169}}</ref> Roberts, an investment broker, also handled the Eisenhower family's investments.<ref name="owen-172-173">{{harvnb|Owen|1999|pp=172–173}}</ref>

He began [[oil painting]] while at Columbia University, after watching [[Thomas E. Stephens (artist)|Thomas E. Stephens]] paint Mamie's portrait. Eisenhower painted about 260 oils during the last 20 years of his life. The images were mostly landscapes but also portraits of subjects such as Mamie, their grandchildren, Field Marshal [[Bernard Montgomery]], [[George Washington]], and [[Abraham Lincoln]].<ref name="dodson19901117">{{cite news | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-11-17-me-4317-story.html | title=New Exhibit Offers a Look at Eisenhower the Artist | work=Los Angeles Times | date=November 17, 1990 | access-date=January 13, 2012 | author=Dodson, Marcida | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309135112/http://articles.latimes.com/1990-11-17/local/me-4317_1_nixon-library | archive-date=March 9, 2012 | url-status=live }}</ref> [[Wendy Beckett]] stated that Eisenhower's paintings, "simple and earnest", caused her to "wonder at the hidden depths of this reticent president". A conservative in both art and politics, Eisenhower in a 1962 speech denounced modern art as "a piece of canvas that looks like a broken-down [[Tin Lizzie]], loaded with paint, has been driven over it".<ref name="beckett">{{cite journal | url=http://www.whha.org/whha_publications/publications_documents/whitehousehistory_21.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120605042420/http://www.whha.org/whha_publications/publications_documents/whitehousehistory_21.pdf | url-status=dead | archive-date=June 5, 2012 | title=President Eisenhower: Painter | author=Beckett, Wendy | journal=White House History | issue=21 | pages=30–40 }}</ref>

''[[Angels in the Outfield (1951 film)|Angels in the Outfield]]'' was Eisenhower's favorite movie.<ref>{{cite web|last=Erickson|first=Hal|title=Angels in the Outfield (1951): Review Summary|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/83734/Angels-in-the-Outfield/overview|access-date=September 25, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928092648/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/83734/Angels-in-the-Outfield/overview|archive-date=September 28, 2013|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=[[The New York Times]]|author-link=Hal Erickson (author)|date=2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> His favorite reading material for relaxation were the Western novels of [[Zane Grey]].<ref name="Rhodes Scholars">{{cite book|last=Schaeper|first=Thomas J.|title=Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite|year=2010|publisher=Berghahn Books|isbn=978-1845457211|page=210}}</ref> With his excellent memory and ability to focus, Eisenhower was skilled at cards. He learned poker, which he called his "favorite indoor sport", in Abilene. Eisenhower recorded West Point classmates' poker losses for payment after graduation and later stopped playing because his opponents resented having to pay him. A friend reported that after learning to play [[contract bridge]] at West Point, Eisenhower played the game six nights a week for five months.<ref name="smith20123132">{{cite book | title=Eisenhower in War and Peace | publisher=Random House | author=Smith, Jean Edward | year=2012 | pages=31–32, 38 | isbn=978-0679644293}}</ref> Eisenhower continued to play bridge throughout his military career. While stationed in the Philippines, he played regularly with President [[Manuel Quezon]], earning him the nickname the "Bridge Wizard of Manila".<ref name="Manuel L. Quezon: 15 Mesmerizing Facts About Philippines' 2nd President">{{cite web |title=Manuel L. Quezon: 15 Mesmerizing Facts About Philippines' 2nd President |url=https://filipiknow.net/facts-about-president-manuel-quezon/ |website=FilipiKnow |access-date=October 27, 2020 |date=June 3, 2019}}</ref> An unwritten qualification for an officer's appointment to Eisenhower's staff during World War II was the ability to play bridge. He played even during the stressful weeks leading up to the D-Day landings. His favorite partner was General [[Alfred Gruenther]], considered the best player in the US Army; he appointed Gruenther his second-in-command at NATO partly because of his skill at bridge. Saturday night bridge games at the White House were a feature of his presidency. He was a strong player, though not an expert by modern standards. The great bridge player and popularizer [[Ely Culbertson]] described his game as classic and sound with "flashes of brilliance" and said that "you can always judge a man's character by the way he plays cards. Eisenhower is a calm and collected player and never whines at his losses. He is brilliant in victory but never commits the bridge player's worst crime of gloating when he wins." Bridge expert [[Oswald Jacoby]] frequently participated in the White House games and said, "The President plays better bridge than golf. He tries to break 90 at golf. At bridge, you would say he plays in the 70s."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://advocate.district8acbl.com/jun09/ike.htm |title=D-Day Memories of the Bridge Player in Chief |first=Karen |last=Walker |website=[[American Contract Bridge League|ACBL]] District 8 |date=June 2009 |access-date=May 25, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160630205253/http://advocate.district8acbl.com/jun09/ike.htm |archive-date=June 30, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref>