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April 27, 1953

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com in 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed Executive Order 10450 which was the hiring and firing rules for government employment. Homosexuality, moral perversion, and communism were categorized as national security threats and could be used as a condition to fire a federal employee and for denying employment to potential applicants. … Continue reading

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April 7, 1954

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com in 1954 President Eisenhower gave his “Domino Theory” speech. This was the theory that if one country fell to communism, the surrounding countries would follow suit like a line of dominoes and it was a major part of US foreign policy from the 1950s to the 1990s. It was because … Continue reading

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July 12, 1954

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1954, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed a highway modernization program that would be funded through both the Federal government and the states through which the new, modern “Interstate Highways” would run. Eisenhower and his staff explained that having these highways were essential for the movement of troops in … Continue reading

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September 19, 1959

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com in 1959 Nikita Khruschev, the Premier of Russia, was not allowed to visit Disneyland due to security reasons. Khrushchev reacted angrily and threw what could only be called a ‘temper tantrum’ or in the Southern vernacular a “Hissy Fit”. Leonid Brezhnev had to reassure the Premier that Eisenhower was not … Continue reading

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