1959 visit by Dwight D. Eisenhower to Spain

thumb|U.S. president Eisenhower and Spanish dictator Francisco Franco at the Torrejón Air Base in December 1959 The visit of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower to Spain on 21 December 1959 was an important moment for the Franco regime to symbolically consolidate its exit from international ostracism during early Francoism.Cuando Eisenhower visitó a Franco El País (21 de diciembre de 2009) History Pact of Madrid Cold War Invited by the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs Fernando Castiella, Eisenhower accepted the invitation in the fall.Rosendorf 2014 135 The visit was the first by a United States president to SpainDelgado 2003 248 and symbolized the definitive rehabilitation of Francisco Franco after years of ostracismWhealey 1995 72 and his acceptance as a U.S. ally.Powell 2007 228-229 Eisenhower landed around 4:30 p.m. on 21 December at the Torrejón Air Base, near Madrid, where he was received by the dictator. Organized as a large social event, the trip between the base and Madrid was made in three cars. The two heads of state were cheered by nearly one million people, in a sort of carnival-like parade;Deltell Escolar 2008 934 Eisenhower and Franco drove through the main streets of the Spanish capital in an open car.Delgado 2003 248 Eisenhower's stop in Spain was not very long: the US president left Spain at 10:45 a.m. the following day.http://www.elmundo.es/espana/2016/07/09/577ffdff46163f20478b4634.html El Mundo 9 July 2016 Una historia de larga y desigual amistad Felipe Sahagún The visit, which was one of Eisenhower's stops on a tour during the latter part of his administration to consolidate U.S. ties with countries outside the communist orbit and with swing countries, was the highest point reached by Franco in international politics.Payne 1987 458 In the following years, U.S. presidents Richard Nixon (2 – 3 October 1970) and Gerald Ford (31 May – 1 June 1975) visited Franco in Spain, both were Republicans, no Democrat POTUS visited Franco.De Eisenhower a Bush: así fueron las visitas de presidentes de EEUU a España Europa Press (08/07/2016) References Bibliography Lorenzo Delgado Salamanca Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca Studia historica. Historia contemporánea 0213-2087 21 2003 231-276 ¿El "amigo americano"?: España y Estados Unidos durante el franquismo Bienvenido Mister Ike Deltell Escolar Luis Universidad Carlos III de Madrid 2008 I Congreso Internacional de Historia y Cine (1, 2007, Getafe) Gloria Camarero Getafe 978-84-691-0824-6 Palabra Clave 17 1 2014 Las voces de un dictador. La figura de Franco desde los micrófonos de Radio Nacional de España (1937-1959) Salvador Gómez-García Nuria Navarro-Sierra 0122-8285 https://www.elmundo.es/la-aventura-de-la-historia/2016/07/08/577f7bb9468aeb94658b456d.html Bienvenido, Mister Eisenhower: el protocolo de las banalidades Martín Alarcón Julio 8 July 2016 El Mundo 30 January 2019 Stanley G. Payne Stanley G. 0-299-11070-2 Payne Madison The University of Wisconsin Press The Franco Regime, 1936–1975 https://archive.org/details/francoregime19360000payn 1987 0-230-00455-5 Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke 2007 Nigel Townson Spain Transformed. The Late Franco Dictatorship, 1959-75 Charles Powell Charles Powell (historian) The United States and Spain: From Franco to Juan Carlos https://archive.org/details/spaintransformed00town 227-247 Neal M. 978-1-349-45264-4 Rosendorf Palgrave Macmillan Franco Sells Spain to America: Hollywood, Tourism and Public Relations as Postwar Spanish Soft Power 2014 Great Leaders, Great Tyrants?: Contemporary Views of World Rulers who Made History Arnold Blumberg Greenwood Publishing Group 1995 Westport & London Robert H. Whealey Robert Whealey 0-313-28751-1 72–79 Category:Foreign relations of Francoist Spain Category:Spain–United States relations Category:United States presidential visits Category:1959 in Spain Category:Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower Category:December 1959 in Europe Category:December 1959 in the United States