Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... After World War II and the Korean War, veterans organizations urged Congress to ...

The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial's formal dedication is slated to take place on Thursday, September 17. Photo by Evelyn Hockstein / The Washington Post via Getty Images After two decades of debate ...

Before George H.W. Bush, the last president to travel home for burial by train by Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1969. Ike's train lefft Washington, D.C, at 6 p.m. on March 31 and arrived at Union Terminal, ...

President George H.W. Bush’s funeral train is the eighth in U.S. history and the first since Dwight D. Eisenhower’s body traveled from the National Cathedral in Washington through seven states to his ...

This flag, known as the Presidential Flag, accompanied President Eisenhower's coffin on its funeral procession in 1969. It was used at the head of the casket when it lay at the Washington National ...

Dwight David Eisenhower was one of the towering figures of the 20th century: A five-star general, he led the D-Day invasion and helped defeat the Nazis. A two-term president, he brought stability to ...