Going Home To Glory Quotes

“Julie and I had met several times and played together as eight year olds in January 1957, at the time of the second Eisenhower-Nixon inauguration. On Inauguration Day, a photograph was taken of us on the reviewing stand with Granddad, Vice President Nixon, my seven-year-old sister, Anne, and Julie's ten-year-old sister, Tricia. Julie, who had lost control of her sled the week before and crashed into a tree, had a skinned nose and dramatic black eye. At one point when the cameramen gathered to take pictures, Granddad had turned to her and whispered, "Look this way and they won't see your black eye." In the resulting photograph, I am staring intently at Julie and she is looking at me.”
― David Eisenhower, Going Home To Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969

“Johnson phoned Eisenhower often ... He wanted the comfort of communicating with someone who could comprehend the unique pressures of the presidency.”
― David Eisenhower, Going Home To Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969

“He [John Eisenhower] followed up by presenting me with Eugene Davidson's The Trial of the Germans, a searching and exhaustive account of the Nuremberg trials complete with in-depth profiles of the Nazi defendants. Like the Bible I had received at age ten, The Trial of the Germans was one of the most treasured gifts I had”
― David Eisenhower, Going Home To Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969

“In a televised appearance in June, Goldwater made remarks that permitted viewers to infer that he would look favorably on a proposal that had appeared in an Air Force journal calling for the use of low-yield nuclear weapons to defoliate the Ho Chi Minh Trail, thereby exposing the North Vietnamese and their supply convoys to attack.”
― David Eisenhower, Going Home To Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969

“I devoutly hope that we will never again have to see such scenes as these. I think and hope, pray that humanity will learn more than we ... learned up to that time. But these people [allied soldiers during D-Day in Normandy] gave us a chance, and they bought time for us, so that we can do better than we have done before.”
― David Eisenhower, Going Home To Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969