John Eisenhower Quotes

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• As son of a Republican president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, it is automatically expected by many that I am a Republican. For 50 years, through the…
• My dad being an Army officer, I was just born to it. I was raised in a military manner, and it was a given that…
• I do not believe that the children of presidents or vice-presidents should be assigned to combat zones. They have no place there.
• Avoiding combat duty was and is an unforgivable sin for a professional soldier.
• In the summer of 1952, when I was 30, the Army assigned me to an infantry unit fighting in Korea. Meanwhile, though, there was other…
• The British soldiers serving in Afghanistan alongside Prince Harry were in exceptional danger until he was withdrawn.
• Unlike the Afghans and Iraqis, the South Korean people solidly supported the American military presence, which was part of a United Nations operation.
• I was a lieutenant in World War II.
• You know, my dad was a lieutenant colonel at Ft. Lewis on the 3rd of March, 1941. Fifteen months later, he was commanding a theater…
• When France fell in 1940, De Gaulle was a temporary brigadier general.

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