Three Days in January Quotes

“is for a member of the Senate or Congress to say, ‘Gee, I can’t accept your appointment this afternoon. I have to play a round of golf at Burning Tree with the President of the United States.”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission – The #1 National Bestseller on Principled Leadership and Ike's Warning to America

“political wheels. “I”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission – The #1 National Bestseller on Principled Leadership and Ike's Warning to America

“a top hat—a deliberate act of rebellion on Ike’s part that shocked the protocol mavens. For their part, the Eisenhowers had refused to enter the White House for a pre-inauguration cup of coffee, choosing instead to wait in the car that would take both the president and president-elect to the ceremony. At least Ike didn’t meet Truman at the Capitol steps, as he’d threatened. But it was a very uncomfortable car ride. “I’m glad I wasn’t in that car,” head White House usher J. B. West said.”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission – The #1 National Bestseller on Principled Leadership and Ike's Warning to America

“Truman was surly in his leave-taking, unable to forgive Ike for his campaign critiques and move on. Although Eisenhower was invited to the White House to confer with Truman after the election, the meeting was chilly. Looking ahead to the inauguration, Eisenhower grumbled, “I wonder if I can stand sitting next to him.” By inauguration day, things deteriorated to the degree that Truman even took umbrage at Ike’s choice of a homburg over a”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission – The #1 National Bestseller on Principled Leadership and Ike's Warning to America

“The general doesn’t know any more about politics than a pig knows about Sunday,” Truman griped, ignoring the fact that he himself had once urged Eisenhower to run for president, before he learned Ike was a Republican. Truman”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission – The #1 National Bestseller on Principled Leadership and Ike's Warning to America

“liberty.”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission – The #1 National Bestseller on Principled Leadership and Ike's Warning to America

“Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re: “Gently in manner, strong in deed.”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission – The #1 National Bestseller on Principled Leadership and Ike's Warning to America

“He developed a simple method for handling rage, an “anger drawer” in his desk into which he dropped slips of paper with the names of people he was angry at. Once in the drawer, the grievance was banished from thought.”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission – The #1 National Bestseller on Principled Leadership and Ike's Warning to America

“Bridge”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission – The #1 National Bestseller on Principled Leadership and Ike's Warning to America

“would echo down through the decades: “Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness. Have you no sense of decency, sir?”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission – The #1 National Bestseller on Principled Leadership and Ike's Warning to America

“It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission – The #1 National Bestseller on Principled Leadership and Ike's Warning to America

“Ike learned the truth of the war. Visiting the First Marine Division at Panmunjom, just outside the Panmunjom Circle—the ten-mile area where lackluster and ineffectual talks were going on—he was outraged to find that as the North Koreans, now supported by the Chinese, shelled the troops regularly each day, American soldiers were under orders not to fire back. Eisenhower was president-elect, but in Korea everyone saw him as General Eisenhower. They were transported back in time to when he had last defeated a monstrous enemy. Ike’s warnings were not bluster, and he had the reputation to pull it off. He warned that unless there was an agreement to sit down at Panmunjom and work out an immediate truce, the war would resume full throttle. “They knew he wasn’t kidding,” said Hagerty. “The word was sent . . . you either sit down and settle this, or there’s going to be no imaginary line at the Yalu River, there’s going to be hot pursuit of your planes regardless of where they come from, and we’re going to end it.” The commanders on the ground favored a full-throttle approach, but Ike, the old general, wanted to see the fight come to an end. And he succeeded, within six months of taking office. After the Korean War, only one known military death (in Vietnam) occurred during his administration.”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission – The #1 National Bestseller on Principled Leadership and Ike's Warning to America

“Mother was tutor and manager of our household. She was by far the greatest personal influence in our lives.” That gentle influence created a foundation from which he built a life of substance.”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission – The #1 National Bestseller on Principled Leadership and Ike's Warning to America

“Religious faith and practice was baked into the Eisenhower family life.”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission – The #1 National Bestseller on Principled Leadership and Ike's Warning to America

“Ike was so effective on the stump that Kennedy grew worried. “With every word he utters, I can feel the votes leaving me,” he told his friend Paul “Red” Fay. “It’s like standing on a mound of sand with the tide running out. If the election were held tomorrow, I’d win easily, but six days from now, it’s up for grabs.”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission – The #1 National Bestseller on Principled Leadership and Ike's Warning to America

“The question then as now is whether we can hold true to our common ideals even in the midst of discord.”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission – The #1 National Bestseller on Principled Leadership and Ike's Warning to America