Oh, That Lovely Title, Ex-president.

Some Day There Is Going To Be A Man Sitting In My Present Chair Who Has Not Been Raised In The Military Services And Who Will Have Little Understanding Of Where Slashes In Their Estimates Can Be Made With Little Or No Damage. If That Should Happen While We Still Have The State Of Tension That Now Exists In The World, I Shudder To Think Of What Could Happen In This Country

I Could Have Spoken From Rhode Island Where I Have Been Staying ... But I Felt That, In Speaking From The House Of Lincoln, Of Jackson, And Of Wilson, My Words Would Better Convey Both The Sadness I Feel In The Action I Was Compelled Today To Make And The Firmness With Which I Intend To Pursue This Course Until The Orders Of The Federal Court At Little Rock Can Be Executed Without Unlawful Interference." (on Sending Troops To Enforce Integration In Little Rock Ar High School)

Planning Is Useless... But The Process Itself Is Indispensable.

The Most Terrible Job In Warfare Is To Be A Second Lieutenant Leading A Platoon When You Are On The Battlefield.

I Come From The Very Heart Of America.