John Eisenhower Quotes

#1. I do not believe that the children of presidents or vice-presidents should be assigned to combat zones. They have no place there.

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#2. Unlike the Afghans and Iraqis, the South Korean people solidly supported the American military presence, which was part of a United Nations operation.

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#3. You know, my dad was a lieutenant colonel at Ft. Lewis on the 3rd of March, 1941. Fifteen months later, he was commanding a theater of war.

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#4. The British soldiers serving in Afghanistan alongside Prince Harry were in exceptional danger until he was withdrawn.

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#5. In the summer of 1952, when I was 30, the Army assigned me to an infantry unit fighting in Korea. Meanwhile, though, there was other news in my family: My father had become the Republican presidential nominee. As an ambitious young major, I refused any offers for other assignments.

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#6. I was a lieutenant in World War II.

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#7. As son of a Republican president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, it is automatically expected by many that I am a Republican. For 50 years, through the election of 2000, I was.

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#8. My dad being an Army officer, I was just born to it. I was raised in a military manner, and it was a given that Army brats went to West Point, so I went to West Point in 1941. And being in the military has been my life.

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#9. My dad had the greatest admiration for MacArthur when they were working together in Washington before the Philippines. And Dad used to talk with absolute awe about MacArthur's brain.

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#10. When France fell in 1940, De Gaulle was a temporary brigadier general.

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#11. Avoiding combat duty was and is an unforgivable sin for a professional soldier.

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