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Quick Answer. The presidential successor of Dwight D. Eisenhower was John Fitzgerald Kennedy, who became the 35th president of the United States in 1961. Dwight Eisenhower played an important role in the military history of the United States as a five-star general. He died in 1969.
After France surrendered to the Viet Minh, Eisenhower's administration aided anti-communist leader Ngo Dinh Diem in consolidating power in Saigon. Throughout his second term as president, Eisenhower remained committed to Diem's often-tyrannical regime.rior to his presidency, Eisenhower was a lifelong military man, commanding the D-Day invasion while serving as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II. In February 1954, President Eisenhower refused to commit American troops to the Franco-Vietnamese War.