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courtesy of Dwight D. Eisenhower Library The Quotable Quotes of Dwight D. Eisenhower
ATOMIC WEAPONS On whether small atomic weapons would be used if war broke
out in the Far East. Press conference March 16, 1954. We are in the era of the thermonuclear bomb that can obliterate cities and can be delivered across continents. With such weapons, war has become, not just tragic, but preposterous. Republican National Convention, August 23, 1956.
Denouncing Democratic presidential candidate Adlai
Stevenson's promise to end the military draft and begin a moratorium on
nuclear weapons testing. Campaign speech, 1956.
To Press Secretary Jim Hagerty who pleaded with Eisenhower
not to answer any press conference questions about the delicate Formosan
Strait crisis, March 23, 1955. (Eisenhower was, indeed, asked if using atomic
weapons on China was an option. He delivered a long, confusing reply which
was effectively indecipherable.)
Referring to congressmen in a letter to friend, Everett
"Swede" Hazlett, July 22, 1957.
From the Chance for Peace address delivered before the
American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953. (Regarded as one of
the finest speeches of Eisenhower's presidency.)
State of the Union Address, Feb. 2, 1953. (Eisenhower
balanced the budget three out of the eight years he was in office.)
On how Charles De Gaulle is not the answer to the French
problem in Vietnam. In a letter to NATO commander, Gen. Al Gruenther, April
26, 1954.
Introducing the domino theory, that if Vietnam fell to
communism, the rest of Southeast Asia would soon follow. Press conference,
April 7, 1954.
Press conference, July 17. 1957, two months before sending
U. S. troops to Little Rock to enforce the desegregation of Central High.
An angry inquiry referring to a Denver newspaper headline
accusing Eisenhower of keeping more trout than the legal limit during a
vacation in Colorado. 1952
Referring to Sen. Joseph McCarthy. Diary entry, April 1,
1953.
State of the Union Address, Feb. 2, 1953
Farewell Address, Jan. 17, 1961
Responding to Montgomery's comment, "Lee and Meade
should have been sacked," during a tour of the Gettysburg battlefield.
June 1957.
Response to reporter's question of whether the president
could give an example of a major idea of Vice President Nixon's that was
adopted by the administration. Press conference, August 24, 1960, during
Nixon's presidential campaign. Dick, I could kick myself everytime some jackass brings up that god damn "give me a week" business. Phone conversation with Nixon, 1966 (From Nixon Memoirs)
To Prime Minister Macmillan on radio - TV broadcast in
London, August 31, 1959
To his secretary after the administration's denial that
the Soviets had shot down a U-2 spy plane was proven a lie by Khrushchev's
announcement that the U-2's pilot, Francis Gary Powers, had been captured
alive. Secretary Ann Whitman diary entry, May 9, 1960.
To his valet, Sgt. Moaney, in frustration over the White
House squirrels who buried acorns in his new putting green. (from Upstairs
at the White House by J. B. West, Chief Usher of the White House.) |