Dwight D Eisenhower/presidency 1953-1961

Famous quotes containing the words dwight d, eisenhower and/or presidency:

    In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969)

    Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
    —Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969)

    ... how often the Presidency has simply meant that a man shall be abused, distrusted, and worked to death while he is filling the great office, and that he should drop into unmerited oblivion when he has left the White House ...
    M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)