John Eisenhower Quotes & Sayings
12 most famous John Eisenhower quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an American soldier who passed away on 21 December, 2013.
“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“The British soldiers serving in Afghanistan alongside Prince Harry were in exceptional danger until he was withdrawn.”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.”
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