Interview with Ike's grandson: D-Day was Eisenhower's presidential decision day

Saturday is the 71st anniversary of D- Day. "Operation Overlord" was the largest amphibious assault in history, involving 160,000 American, British and Canadian soldiers who crossed the English Channel to the beaches of Nazi- occupied Normandy. Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower supervised the risky invasion. His grandson, David Eisenhower, is a respected military historian who enjoyed a privileged vantage on D-Day. He spent much of his first 21 years in Washington and Gettysburg in hundreds of conversations about life, politics and war with his grandfather. Ike named Camp David, the presidential retreat in the Catoctin Mountains, for his grandson. David, who has written...