Change Quote by Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy

“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

The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible.

— Alistair Cooke

“The country no longer felt like the innocent place it was said to be in the Eisenhower fifties. Political murder, economic injustice and institutionalized…

— Bruce Springsteen

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

— Malcolm Muggeridge

Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most

— Ethel Merman

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

[Dwight Eisenhower was ] a citizen of the world.

— Mark Shields

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

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

“Long habit had accustomed the American people to the notion of a party in power, and of a President as its creature and organ,…

— James Russell Lowell

In retrospect, we could see that the 1950s had been a reactionary period in America of Eisenhower blandness, of virulent anticommunism, of the 'Feminine…

— Edmund White

When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the world was all about Jack Kennedy.…

— James Ellroy