Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
I have said time and again there is no place on this earth to which I would not travel, there is no chore I would not undertake if I had any faintest hope that, by so doing, I would promote the general cause of world peace.
Eisenhower, Dwight D. "Radio and Television Address to the American People Following the Geneva Conference." 25 July 1955. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1955, National Archives and Records Service, 1959, p. 726.
This was the week after he returned from his meeting with Hitler in Munich where he appeased the German Dictator. See {585941} for his famous naive statement.
Historically, this quotation seems like an endorsement of motherhood, but it was an extremely important statement at the time. Eisenhower was convinced to run for the Presidency as a Republican in order to stop Senator Robert Taft and the conservative, isolationist, right wing of the Republican Party. These Republicans opposed American support of the United Nations. Eisenhower won the Republican nomination, then the general election, and clearly announced to the country and the world, that the moderate wing of the Republican Party was in control and the United Nations was an important part of our foreign policy.
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower GCB OM GCS CCLH KC NPk was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, he became a five-star general in the Army and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe. He was responsible for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of Normandy in 1944–45 from the Western Front.
