Jean Edward Smith Quotes

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

Jean Edward Smith

#2. 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.

Jean Edward Smith

#3. 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.

Jean Edward Smith

#4. 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.

Jean Edward Smith

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

Jean Edward Smith

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

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#7. Jealousy knows no logic, nor does it respect reciprocity.

Jean Edward Smith

#8. If George Washington founded the nation, John Marshall defined it.

Jean Edward Smith