Irving Berlin Quotes

Out of the heartland of America, out of this small house in Abilene, Kansas, came a man: Dwight D. Eisenhower. Through the crucial hour of D-Day he brought us the triumphant peace of VE-Day. Now, in another crucial hour in our history…

I like Ike. But I like his running mate, Nixon, even better.

Roosevelt or Ruin

I caddied for Dwight Eisenhower and Omar Bradley long before they became generals or president, for that matter. Just between you and me, Bradley tipped better than Eisenhower did.

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

It must have been the fall of 1952 when my father returned to London sporting a neck tie emblazoned with the words 'I Like Ike.'

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 and the best.

'What if?' history is a tricky game, but there is no doubt that the senior planners of D-Day - including Eisenhower and the British general Bernard Montgomery - believed that the Double Cross operation had played a pivotal role in the victory.

Dwight Eisenhower presented a face of America that was heroic and resolute; Ronald Reagan represented a return to confidence and glamour after the weary Carter years.

The first person who contacted us was the assistant to President Eisenhower... in the White House.

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

Dean Acheson was one of the very best and brightest of the men who ever came to Washington.

If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.

When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the world was all about Jack Kennedy. I was 12, interested in politics; my father was from Massachusetts, had an accent like Kennedy.

The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.

On rare occasions, Dad used to reminisce about when he met Eisenhower and how Churchill would pop in, in the late hours of the evening or night, carrying a cigar, when he'd obviously had a good dinner.

Lincoln made mistakes. Roosevelt made mistakes. Eisenhower made mistakes. The Battle of the Bulge was the biggest intelligence failure in American military history, much bigger than any in Vietnam or now. We didn't know that the Soviets were moving 400,000 or 500,000 troops. We missed it.

I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.

My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.

Reagan's dead, and he was a lousy President.

Republican isolationists had certainly tied the hands of every U.S. president, year after year - berating Franklin Roosevelt in particular and his attempts to ready the nation for inevitable attack.

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. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.

Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later.

Ike must have carried it through the Pentagon on a motorcycle

I was a biographer of MacArthur and Eisenhower. Eisenhower was smarter. MacArthur was more glib. When MacArthur had a problem, he turned it over to Eisenhower.