#eisenhower

So the reason that the Bay of Pigs failed was that the original promise made by Eisenhower was not kept by the subsequent Administration. It allowed hostile air to wipe out the approaching invasion force. ↗

— E. Howard Hunt

#air #allowed #approaching #bay #eisenhower

Arnold Palmer has what I call an 'Eisenhower smile'. Those two men, they'd smile and their whole faces would look so pleasant; it was like they were smiling all over. ↗

— Byron Nelson

#arnold palmer #call #eisenhower #faces #i

There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson - real lows. And it's never come back. It's a trend that, if you're liberal, is really discouraging. ↗

— Robert Caro

#come #discouraging #eisenhower #feeling #fell

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

— John Keegan

#eisenhower #english #epitomizes #gentleman #natural

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. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#about #american #best #brightest #century

I think I can do more inside the Republican Party to keep it in the center of the road. That's where Eisenhower was. And I'm an unabashed Eisenhower Republican. ↗

— Charles H. Percy

#eisenhower #i #i can #i think #inside

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#inspirational #patriotic-freedom #presidential #freedom

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

— Betty Hill

#contacted #eisenhower #first #house #person

Sugar maple!" Mary-Todd Holt knelt over her husband. "Are you all right?" Eisenhower sat up, and egg-size lump blooming on his crown. "Of course I'm all right!" he managed, his words slurred. "You think a little insect can stop me?" Reagan was unconvinced. "I don't know, Dad. She brained you with a baseball bat!" "Hockey stick," Dan corrected. "Those could be your last words, brat– ↗

— Gordon Korman

#dan #eisenhower #holt #humor #mary-todd

It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay with responsible conservation. ↗

— Robert Dold

#balance #bay #conservation #development #dwight