Best things Quote by Alistair Cooke

When Dwight Eisenhower became president, I personally was delighted. I thought that that was a very good thing.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

Eisenhower advocated a variety of strong actions which he had never taken when he was president. Maybe this was just the pattern of former…

— Anonymous

“The President is also captured in a well-worn TV news clip, making a boilerplate response to a question on terrorism and then asking the…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Eisenhower was the living symbol of what felt in 1969 like an easier age, when greatness was an American birthright, when the torrents of…

— Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy

Eisenhower's career demonstrated how it is possible to fool all the people all the time...'I may be stupid,' he once said at a press…

— Gore Vidal

“We seemed about to enter an Olympian age in this country, brains and intellect harnessed to great force, the better to define a common…

— David Halberstam

Eisenhower was quite supportive of Kennedy and Johnson in terms of foreign policy.

— Robert Dallek

Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest…

— Stephen Ambrose

“Presidents could be fickle and arbitrary. Each new one with wildly different visions and priorities. And when all was said and done, they were…

— Douglas E. Richards

President Roosevelt proved that a President could serve for life. Truman proved that anyone could be elected. Eisenhower proved that your country can be…

— Nikita Khrushchev

“A common canard of the time showed Ike viewing the Presidency simply as an agreeable place in which to pass the early years of…

— Hugh Brogan

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