President Eisenhower was a JW

Gerard

http://www.geocities.com/lord_visionary/eisenhower_witness_background.htm

DakotaRed

I believe if you further research it, you will find hs Mother became a BIble Student and Dwight never actually joined.

Lew W

Gopher

Ike was embarrassed about his religious background, and tried to keep it hidden.

Sentinel

Lew,

I concur with your information.

It was once told around at assemblies through gossip, that Jacqueline Kennedy was "studying". All that happened was she accepted some free literature from a JW.

DakotaRed

Isn't it amazing how they will stretch things to make it sound like famous names are interested, Karen?

How more worldy could a guy get than Eisenhower did? Supreme Allied Commander, President, West Point graduate. Looks to me if he were ever really interested, he rejected it openly and blantantly for all to see.

Lew W

mouthy

In one of the books at the Jws library-there is a letter written by His Mother- He was never in the religion She was....

blondie

scan of letter from Ida Eisenhower to Richard Boeckel

http://www.premier1.net/~raines/letter3.html

http://users.skynet.be/fa101291/personen/Ike.html

Childhood

Eisenhower's parents, David and Ida Stover Eisenhower, both belonged to the River Brethren, a fundamentalist Christian sect. David and Ida met as students at Lane University, operated by the United Brethren Church in Lecompton, Kans. They married in 1885. David's father, a prosperous farmer, gave him $2,000 and a 160-acre farm as wedding gifts. However, David hated the drudgery of farming and sold out, investing in a general store in Hope, Kans. Within three years the business failed, and David was broke. He fled to Denison, Texas, leaving behind a son and a pregnant wife. He worked as a laborer on a railroad for $40 a month and in 1889 sent for his family to join him in Texas. There Dwight was born on Oct. 14, 1890. When Dwight was less than a year old, David took a job at the Belle Springs Creamery in Abilene, Kans., and the family moved into a small house in Abilene. There David and Ida raised six healthy boys--a seventh son died in infancy--on a salary that never exceeded $100 a month. Each of the six surviving sons achieved success.

Ida ran a tightly organized household. The Eisenhowers raised almost all their own food, selling the surplus for cash. The boys worked to earn their spending money. David led weekly Bible reading sessions. He and Ida moved steadily toward a more primitive Christianity, eventually joining the Jehovah's Witnesses. None of their sons became notably devout--Dwight never joined a church and rarely attended a church service in his adult life--but none staged a dramatic rebellion against religion either. At the core of his parents' religion was an ingrained respect for the individual as a creature of God who had free will. They insisted that their boys be fully exposed to Christianity, but beyond that they did not impose their beliefs. The Eisenhowers also encouraged their children to be independent and self-reliant.

Edited by - Blondie on 5 November 2002 22:57:9

Sangdigger

Yeah, but at least he died before Armageddon, so he'll get a second chance.

(I remember growing up, wishing all of my favorite singers and movie stars would die, so they could get a second chance. HELP SOMEBODY PLEASE TELL ME ITS GONNA BE ALRIGHT)

wednesday

yes this is a real old rumor...

yes they have flip floped around about who will be resurected(hope i got thatspelled right-da*n shame to have bee JW all my life and can't spell that.

BTW, what is the offical view about the people from S&G?

Personally i hope John Wayne is brought back-can still here him sying"ahhhh hell...."

DakotaRed

Wednesday, John Wayne has always been a favorite of mine. I always enjoyed his movies, well, maybe except for the phoney Green Berets.

My favorite scene was from the movie McClintock, where he is poking the settler with the rifle saying, I'm not going to hit you, then turns around and says the hell I'm not, and slugs him down the mud pit. I always envision him slugging members of the GB that way and seeing them slide butt first into a big mud pit

Lew W

President Eisenhower was a JW

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