Ike's Coast-to-Coast Road Trip of 1919

Eisenhower spends WWI in Texas, not at the Front.

Our perceptions of Dwight Eisenhower are shaped by our knowledge of his military leadership during World War II and his successes as president. But given all that we know, imagine how a young Eisenhower must have felt to graduate from West Point in June 1915 and be sent to Fort Sam Houston, in San Antoni…