John Eisenhower Quotes & Sayings

“Avoiding combat duty was and is an unforgivable sin for a professional soldier.”

“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.”

“The British soldiers serving in Afghanistan alongside Prince Harry were in exceptional danger until he was withdrawn.”

“Almost everything else I have done during my adult years has been affected to some extent by my name - by my father's position, if you will. But in the air, I had no name; to the Federal Aviation Agency I was simply Comanche Nine-Nine POP. The quality of my landings, navigation and judgment were mine alone.”

“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.”

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

“I was a lieutenant in World War II.”

“When France fell in 1940, De Gaulle was a temporary brigadier general.”

“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.”

“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.”