
Eisenhower in War and Peace

Of all of Germany’s senior commanders, including Rommel and von Rundstedt, few were more eager to attack than Kesselring, and none had his ability to combine air and ground operations.
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
Despite Churchill’s misgivings, it was agreed that Allied forces would cross the Channel in May 1944.
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
Finally happening
Eisenhower, like George Patton, was never shy about pulling strings to advance his career.
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
Model was the first to recognize that Hitler’s orders would lead to the destruction of the German Army in France.
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
Curiously, Warren’s early support for the internment of Japanese Americans on the Pacific Coast led southern senators such as Walter George and Richard Russell of Georgia to vigorously support his nomination for chief justice, assuming that Warren would naturally support racial segregation. As for the evacuation, Warren later confessed that he had
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The mark of a man is in being able to say - I was wrong
Eisenhower took the most divisive issue to confront American society since the Civil War and moved it toward a solution with as little rancor as possible. At the time, that satisfied neither those who sought immediate integration everywhere, nor those rabid segregationists who opposed any change anywhere.
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
Three so-called tactical atomic bombs would be used.
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
Wtf
The election turned into a popularity contest between Eisenhower and Stevenson, waged before a backdrop of twenty years of Democratic rule.
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
Both men were exacting taskmasters. “General Eisenhower was not the easiest person in the world to work for,” said Lucius D. Clay. “He would give you a job, and when you completed it he would give you another. The more you did, the more he asked. And if you did not measure up, you were gone. He had no tolerance for failure.”