FAQ

Susan Eisenhower On Family: Ten Frequently Asked Questions

1. How are you related to President Dwight Eisenhower?
I am a granddaughter.

2. Who is your father?
My father is John S.D. Eisenhower, a retired army general, former Ambassador to Belgium and military historian, and he was Ike and Mamie Eisenhower’s only surviving child. Their first child was a son named Doud Dwight, who died at the age of three.

3. Who is your mother?
Barbara Thompson Eisenhower (now Barbara Foltz). She too came from an Army family.

4. Do you have any siblings?
Yes. I am the third of four children. I have an older brother, Dwight David Eisenhower II (David); Barbara Anne (Anne) and a younger sister, Mary Jean (Mary).

5. Do you remember your grandparents?
Yes very well. I was almost eighteen years old when my grandfather died and nearly twenty-eight when my grandmother passed away. For many years we lived on a farm adjacent to theirs in Gettysburg Pennsylvania. I rode my grandfather’s horses.

6. Do you have children of your own?
Yes. I have three daughters: Caroline, Laura and Amy.

7. Do you have grandchildren?
Yes, one of my daughters has twin boys and another has a boy and a girl.

8. Weren’t you married to physicist Roald Sagdeev?
Yes. We married in 1990.

9. Are you still together?
No. A couple of years ago our marriage came to an end but we are still friends and business partners.

10. Does your family get together often and do you agree about politics?
We get together every Thanksgiving and at many other holidays and birthdays throughout the year. We are a close family; one that enjoys the rough and tumble of heated debate. Despite this, our views are more harmonious than not and we have a great deal of fun at family gatherings.

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