Quotes from Jean Edward Smith

He lifted himself from a wheelchair to lift the nation from its knees.

Jealousy knows no logic, nor does it respect reciprocity.

The Italian government, a free French newspaper tartly observed, never finished a war on the same side it started on – unless the war lasted long enough to change sides twice.

Eisenhower on Patton: "Fundamentally, he is so avid for recognition as a great commander that he won't with ruthlessly suppress any habit that will jeopardize it.

if George Washington founded the nation, John Marshall defined it.

The loneliness of command had made Eisenhower emotionally self-sufficient.

From what I hear of what has been appearing in the newspapers," Ike wrote his son John, "you are learning that it is easy enough for a man to be a newspaper hero one day and a bum the next.

Patton would have said a warmer goodbye to his horse, The author writes on Eisenhower's cold dismissal of his wartime lover.

As proof that HOW we see things matters, Gen. Montgomery took a preprepared text that had been deemed an innocuous complement to his American troops and delivered it in such a way that his condescension prompted more division than unity.

Among all the powerful nations of the world the United States is the only one with a tradition of anti-colonialism." That was an asset of incalculable value. "It means our counsel is trusted where that of others may not be. It is essential to our position of leadership in a world wherein the majority of the nations have at some time or another felt the yoke of colonialism.

Ike was like a giant umbrella. He absorbed what was coming down from above, shielded his commanders from higher authority, and about them to fight the war without excessive second-guessing.

The hard decisions," Ridgway added, "are not the ones you make in the heat of battle. Far harder to make are those involved in speaking your mind about some hare-brained scheme, which proposes to commit troops to action under conditions where failure is almost certain, and the only results will be the needless sacrifice of priceless lives.

Author says that, while Eisenhower had other intellectual mentors, he learned how to lead men from Gen. Walter Krueger. Krueger was the first American enlisted man to rise to four-star general, and he so identified with those he led that he once invited a sentry out of the rain and gave him his own dry uniform.

Lincoln responded: I have just received your dispatch of 1 p.m. yesterday. —I begin to see it. You will succeed. — God bless you all. A. LINCOLN6

Use common sense; don't magnify the importance of insignificant details; don't worry about bygones; and keep it simple. Focus, common sense, simplicity, and attitude

Despite Sumner's vigorous opposition, the Senate, after an all-night debate, adopted a resolution introduced by Senator Oliver P. Morton of Indiana authorizing the commission, and the House followed suit.51

The Eisenhower administration, and Ike himself, bear heavy responsibility for snuffing out responsible government in Iran.

Not to be overlooked are the four women who played crucial roles in FDR's life: his mother, Sara; Lucy Mercer, the woman he loved; Missy LeHand, the woman who loved him;

I cannot do this," she remembered thinking to herself, but she went anyway. "You must do the thing you think you cannot do," she wrote later, supplying her own emphasis.

Eisenhower and Patton, old friends and figures crucial to the Allies' upcoming success, conferred over yet another gaffe on Patton's part that could have cost him his command. Patton's head is on Ike's shoulder in gratitude, but the scene is rescued from being completely maudlin by Eisenhower's internal question as to whether Patton wears his ever-present helmet to bed.

If Landon took the high road, Gerald L. K. Smith, Father Coughlin, and the Union party took the low. Alarmed at Lemke's failure to gain traction, Union party rhetoric escalated to a level of vituperation seldom seen in American public life. "I'll teach them how to hate," Smith boasted. "Religion and patriotism, keep going on that. It's the only way you can get them really 'het up.'

It's a bit traumatic," she noted, "to see your father, who took long walks with you, sailed with you, could out-jump you, and suddenly you look up and you see him walking on crutches—trying, struggling in heavy steel braces. And you see the sweat down his face, and you hear him saying, 'I must get down the driveway today—all the way down the driveway.

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When hit in the stomach by a line drive, he wrote his parents that it was "to the great annoyance of that intricate organ, and to the great delight of all present.