Dwight D. Eisenhower And The Vietnam War

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In 1958, Dwight D. Eisenhower was president. We were in the middle of the Vietnam War. We still only had one type of television. It was the box T.V. Our radio system was a little box radio with a long antenna. Fashion for ladies in 1958 was big poofy dresses and curled up hair. Red lipstick and thick eyeliner. Men would wear dress pants. Dress shirts under their buttoned up coats and bow ties. Always dress shoes, never anything else. Fedoras as well. In 1958 they launched spacecrafts into space. They launched 28 in the entire year. Explorer 1 was the first one they launched and SCORE/ Project Score was the last. Elvis Presley was very popular durong 1958. He was most noticed in this year and 1957. In 1958, Boeing 707 was created. It was a very

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