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I Have Just Realized That It Is Due To You, And To Mr. James Thomas And His Staff Of The Army Navy Country Club That The Putting Green Here On The White House Lawn Is Already In Such Excellent Condition. I Assure You That I Get A Great Deal Of Pleasure And Relaxation Out Of Using The Green In An Occasional Late Afternoon Hour . . .

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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I Have Just Realized That It Is Due To You, And To Mr. James Thomas And His Staff Of The Army Navy Country Club That The Putting Green Here On The White House Lawn Is Already In Such Excellent Condition. I Assure You That I Get A Great Deal Of Pleasure And Relaxation Out Of Using The Green In An Occasional Late Afternoon Hour . . .

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Well, When You Come Down To It, I Don't See That A Reporter Could Do Much To A President, Do You?

The World Must Know What Happened, And Never Forget.

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I'll Tell You What Leadership Is. It's Persuasion And Conciliation, And Education, And Patience.

Before All Else, We Seek, Upon Our Common Labor As A Nation, The Blessings Of Almighty God.

Science Seems Ready To Confer Upon Us, As Its Final Gift, The Power To Erase Human Life From This Planet.

Few Women, I Fear, Have Had Such Reason As I Have To Think The Long Sad Years Of Youth Were Worth Living For The Sake Of Middle Age.

Make It A Practice To Avoid Hating Anyone. If Someone's Been Guilty Of Despicable Actions, Especially Toward Me, I Try To Forget Him. I Used To Follow A Practice - Somewhat Contrived, I Admit - To Write The Man's Name On A Piece Of Scrap Paper, Drop It Into The Lowest Drawer Of My Desk, And Say To Myself: "that Finishes The Incident, And So Far As I'm Concerned, That Fellow." The Drawer Became Over The Years A Sort Of Private Wastebasket For Crumbled-up Spite And Discarded Personalities.

Recognition Of The Supreme Being Was The First - The Most Basic - Expression Of Americanism.

My Ambition In The Army Was To Make Everybody I Worked For Regretful When I Was Ordered To Other Duty.

Because, Therefore, We Are Defending A Way Of Life, We Must Be Respectful Of That Way Of Life As We Proceed To The Solution Of Our Problem. We Must Not Violate Its Principles And Its Precepts, And We Must Not Destroy From Within What We Are Trying To Defend From Without.

. . .a Sense Of Humor Can Be A Great Help-particularly A Sense Of Humor About (oneself). William Howard Taft Joked About His Own Corpulence And People Loved It; Took Nothing From His Inherent Dignity. Lincoln Eased Tense Moments With Bawdy Stories, And Often Poked Fun At Himself-and History Honors Him For This Human Quality. A Sense Of Humor Is Part Of The Art Of Leadership, Of Getting Along With People, Of Getting Things Done.

Character In Many Ways Is Everything In Leadership. It Is Made Up Of Many Things, But I Would Say Character Is Really Integrity. When You Delegate Something To A Subordinate, For Example, It Is Absolutely Your Responsibility, And He Must Understand This. You As A Leader Must Take Complete Responsibility For What The Subordinate Does. I Once Said, As A Sort Of Wisecrack, That Leadership Consists Of Nothing But Taking Responsibility For Everything That Goes Wrong And Giving Your Subordinates Credit For Everything That Goes Well.

In Vast Stretches Of The Earth, Men Awoke Today In Hunger. They Will Spend The Day In Unceasing Toil. And As The Sun Goes Down They Will Still Know Hunger. They Will See Suffering In The Eyes Of Their Children. Many Despair That Their Labor Will Ever Decently Shelter Their Families Or Protect Them Against Disease. So Long As This Is So, Peace And Freedom Will Be In Danger Throughout Our World. For Wherever Free Men Lose Hope Of Progress, Liberty Will Be Weakened And The Seeds Of Conflict Will Be Sown.

If You Want Total Security, Go To Prison. There You're Fed, Clothed, Given Medical Care And So On. The Only Thing Lacking... Is Freedom.

No Amphibious Attack In History Has Approached This One In Size. Along Miles Of Coastline There Were Hundreds Of Vessels And Small Boats Afloat And Ant-like Files Of Advancing Troops Ashore.

There Must Be Justice, Sensed And Shared By All Peoples, For, Without Justice The World Can Know Only A Tense And Unstable Truce.

... The Future Is Very Markedly In Your Hands, Its Value And Its Moral Standing In The World And Among Ourselves. If You Will Take The Power You Have And Use It, I Have No Fear Of The Outcome Of The Future.

Our Arms Must Be Mighty ... Ready For Instant Action, So That No Potential Aggressor May Be Tempted To Risk His Own Destruction

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