Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
It is my personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or any other form of dictatorship than acknowledge the political domination of another government, even though that brought to each citizen a far higher standard of living.
Eisenhower, Dwight D. The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower. Johns Hopkins University Press.
President Lyndon Johnson was distressed over the effectiveness of the anti-war protests and thought that the American leftists, who were among the organizers of the protests, were acting under direction of Russia. He had previously ordered Helms to investigate that, which was (and is) technically illegal. Helms complied, but what the CIA found was not what the president wanted to hear. He told Helms to keep investigating.
Hayek uses this line to explain that fascism may emerge when communism—or belief in its promise—fails, as seen in Stalinist Russia and pre‑Hitler Germany.
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.
