Eisenhower Quote by Robert Dallek Download Open image “Eisenhower was quite supportive of Kennedy and Johnson in terms of foreign policy.” — Robert Dallek ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Eisenhower Foreign Foreign policy Johnson Kennedy Policy Quite Supportive Terms
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 Copy Share Image
Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War.… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Eisenhower was less deferential to the military than he seemed likely to be, Kennedy was not at all beholden to the pope, George W.… — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
Some Kennedy aides have always insisted that Johnson misread J.F.K.'s plans for Vietnam. They say that Kennedy had begun to rethink the U.S. presence… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Kennedy was significantly different than Eisenhower before him, and different from Johnson after him. So those three years were the beginning of a détente… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Kennedy is remembered as a success mainly because of what came after: Johnson and Vietnam. Nixon and Watergate. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most — Ethel Merman Copy Share Image
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and J.F Kennedy were Presidents in very different times. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Kennedy was a lot of fun, always. He had something going on. But not Nixon. — George Smathers Copy Share Image
Don't be intimidated by people who seem to be experts. Hear their points of view and get their judgements. But at the end of… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
During his presidency, Truman and the Republicans were locked in a series of furious assaults on each other that outraged him and made Truman… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Experience helped Richard Nixon, but it didn't save him, and it certainly wasn't a blanket endorsement. He blundered terribly in dealing with Vietnam. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
When Gingrich attacked CNN's John King for bringing up his alleged proposal of an open marriage to his second wife, Gingrich accused him of… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
In seeking an empire of liberty, Jefferson wished not only to expand the country's territorial holdings, but also to extend American institutions around the… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Despite its flaws, the American electoral system has produced Lincoln, the two Roosevelts, and Harry Truman. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
For those of us who cry out for gun control, our fears cannot be eliminated as long as the country remains an armed camp… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
The Atlantic conference in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland is a dramatic moment in World War II history because for the first time, Roosevelt… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
For style and for creating a mood of optimism and hope - Kennedy on that count is as effective as any president the country… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
As for Vietnam, what matters is that Kennedy successfully resisted pressure to send anything more than military advisers, a stance that was a likely… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think that President [Dwight] Eisenhower was... did the most marvelous job in the war, not really a military job: a public relations job,… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image