Ike's Bluff Quotes

“It is remarkable how little concern men seem to have for logic, statistics, and even, indeed, survival: we live by emotion, prejudice, and pride.”24”
― Evan Thomas, Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World

“The 1950s were boringly peaceful (or are remembered that way) only because Eisenhower made them so.”
― Evan Thomas, Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World

“Take a bucket, fill it with water, Put your hand in—clear up to the wrist. Now pull it out; the hole that remains Is a measure of how you’ll be missed… The moral of this quaint example; To do just the best that you can, Be proud of yourself, but remember, There is no Indispensable Man!”
― Evan Thomas, Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World

“The Soviets, in an unprecedented gesture, published the entire address—which called for mutual disarmament—in Pravda. A sense of hope and possibility briefly flared in Washington and Moscow, and other capitals around the world.”
― Evan Thomas, Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World

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― Evan Thomas, Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World