Patton would have said a warmer goodbye to his horse, The…

“Eisenhower and Patton, old friends and figures crucial to the Allies' upcoming success, conferred over yet another gaffe on Patton's part that could have…

— Jean Edward Smith

“Eisenhower on Patton: "Fundamentally, he is so avid for recognition as a great commander that he won't with ruthlessly suppress any habit that will…

— Jean Edward Smith

Author says that, while Eisenhower had other intellectual mentors, he learned how to lead men from Gen. Walter Krueger. Krueger was the first American…

— Jean Edward Smith

“The loneliness of command had made Eisenhower emotionally self-sufficient.”

— Jean Edward Smith

I think it [presidency of Dwight Eisenhower] came too late and I think that he is not on the wavelength of this dreadful time…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

The Eisenhower Memorial competition and project have stirred a remarkable polemic, the center of which is not President Eisenhower or Washington, D.C. but Mr.…

— Leon Krier

I voted for Stevenson as opposed to Eisenhower because I thought he would make a good president, but against my conscience because I thought…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“Dwight Eisenhower had secretly endorsed the blueprints of this multi-genocide machine. He had furthermore demanded, largely for budgetary reasons, that there be no other…

— Daniel Ellsberg

“There are guys bleeding to death who don't know it, they're smiling, they're talking, they don't feel pain because they're in shock, they ask…

— Elizabeth Berg

“He urged Washington to organize a group of American journalists to come to Europe to begin documenting these horrors at once. There were still…

— A.J. Baime

“The president called upon the Marine emergency evacuation helicopter that the White House Military Office had stationed nearby in the event of a surprise…

— Garrett M. Graff

War is party-blind. It doesn't care who is in the Oval Office. The forces that drive us to war don't care whether it's Republican,…

— Eugene Jarecki

“You had to been there, kid. Everybody thinks now the Eisenhower years were so quaint and cute and boring, but all that had a…

— Thomas Pynchon

I played with [Dwight Eisenhower] on the day after I won the Masters at his request. We became everlasting friends. I was with him…

— Arnold Palmer

Along with the GI Bill, which educated and housed Eisenhower's fellow veterans, the Interstate System has proved to be by far the most important…

— David S. Broder