Dwight David Eisenhower

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), also known as Dwight D Eisenhower is short, was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. He was Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe During World War II and achieved the five-star rank of General of the Army.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from a cornfield.

- speech, September 25, 1956

• In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

- farewell speech, January 17, 1961

• There are all sorts of things to be done in this country. … I see no reason why the sums which are now going into these sterile, negative mechanisms that we call war munitions shouldn't go into something positive.

- quoted in Stephen E Ambrose, Eisenhower: The President

Robert Ley