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The Eisenhower Connection
In 1945 the 5th Marquis of Ailsa gave Culzean Castle into the care of the National Trust for Scotland, Scotland’s leading conservation charity. The Marquis requested that the top floor of the Castle be converted into a self-contained apartment and offered to General Dwight D Eisenhower, for his lifetime tenancy, as a gesture of thanks from the people of Scotland, for his part in commanding Scottish troops in the Battle for Europe.
General Eisenhower was delighted to accept and took up residence at Culzean for the first time in the autumn of 1946, flying into Prestwick Airport on 1 October.
General Eisenhower was accompanied on this occasion by Mrs Eisenhower, their son John D Eisenhower and Mrs Eisenhower’s mother, Mrs John Sheldon Doud.
‘Ike’ visited a further three times, once during his second term as President of the United States, when Culzean became his Scottish ‘Whitehouse’.
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