President Dwight Eisenhower died due to a heart attack he experienced in 1957, but its cause goes deeper. Eisenhower had an adrenal gland tumor called pheochromocytoma that secreted large amounts of adrenaline and noradrenaline; these hormones cause blood pressure spikes as well as accelerate heartbeat rates; eventually his blood pressure regularly spiked dramatically and caused at least four additional heart attacks as well as failure.
By 1957’s end, President Eisenhower had grown weary. Although the nation had successfully defeated Nazi Germany during WWII, economic issues as well as issues regarding Civil Rights Act violations still presented itself within America’s borders.
Eisenhower was being heavily criticized by newspaper columnists and others who felt that he had failed to do his job as commander-in-chief. But during World War II, he rose to prominence after designing a system of unified command through which he became supreme commander for European theater of operations – overseeing American and Allied forces massing in Great Britain before leading initial landings in North Africa, Operation Torch followed by Operation Overlord as successful campaigns were successfully conducted against western Europe.
