William B. Ewald Jr. (December 8, 1925 – March 16, 2015) was an American speechwriter for

Dwight Eisenhower Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was the 34th president of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, he was Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionar ...

. He worked at the

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until 1961, and then for the chairman of

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, until 1988. Ewald authored several histories of the Eisenhower presidency, which led to a critical reassessment of those years. He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis (BA) and

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(PhD). He died of a

respiratory failure Respiratory failure results from inadequate gas exchange by the respiratory system, meaning that the arterial oxygen, carbon dioxide, or both cannot be kept at normal levels. A drop in the oxygen carried in the blood is known as hypoxemia; a r ...

at age 89.

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