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Arnold Palmer has what I call an 'Eisenhower smile'. Those two men, they'd smile and their whole faces would look so pleasant; it was like they were smiling all over.

~Byron Nelson

Topics: Arnold Call Eisenhower Faces Like Look Men Over Pleasant Smile Smiling Those Two Were Whole Would

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I think I can do more inside the Republican Party to keep it in the center of the road. That's where Eisenhower was. And I'm an unabashed Eisenhower Republican.

~Charles H. Percy

Topics: Center Eisenhower Inside Keep More Party Republican Republican Party Road Think Where I Think I Can

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Try, if you will, to imagine Dwight Eisenhower or JFK or Lyndon Johnson or, for that matter, Ronald Reagan chin-wagging with Jack Paar or Johnny Carson. Richard Nixon did, famously, go on 'Laugh In' in 1968, but as a candidate; and to his credit, he rued the day and hated every second of it.

~Christopher Buckley

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Napoleon might have understood Dwight D. Eisenhower, who fought not even a hundred and fifty years after Waterloo. But I don't think Eisenhower could even begin to wrap his mind around drone warfare, spy satellites, or any of the technology that now defines the security of our world.

~Claudia Gray

Topics: After Any Around Begin Could Defines Eisenhower Even Fifty Fought His Hundred Might Mind Napoleon Now Our Our World Satellites Security Spy Technology Think Understood Warfare Who World Wrap Years

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I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.

~Clint Eastwood

Topics: Because Eisenhower Get He Korean Korean War Out Promised Republican Started Us War

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Of course, Dwight D. Eisenhower gets credit for doing more for golf than any other White House resident, a mid- to high-handicapper though he was.

~Dan Jenkins

Topics: Any Course Credit Doing Eisenhower Gets Golf He House Mid More Other Resident Than Though White White House

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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.

~Dan Jenkins

Topics: Again Aging Back Bobby Eisenhower Foreigners Francis Front General Golf Handy Here Him Jack Last Masters More Named Out Pages Put Round Send Than Want You

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Eisenhower was less deferential to the military than he seemed likely to be, Kennedy was not at all beholden to the pope, George W. Bush was smarter than portrayed and Barack Obama has not led a charge from the left - least of all on behalf of the civil liberties that have eroded since September 11, 2001.

~David K. Shipler

Topics: Barack Barack Obama Behalf Beholden Bush Charge Civil Civil Liberties Eisenhower Eroded George George W George W. Bush He Kennedy Least Led Left Less Liberties Likely Military Obama Pope Portrayed Seemed September Since Smarter Than

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In the fifties, no one wore beards. In Eisenhower's day, as in the time of the Founding Fathers, all chins were smooth, while during the Civil War, beards were as common as sepsis.

~Donald Hall

Topics: Civil Civil War Common Day Eisenhower Fathers Fifties Founding Founding Fathers Smooth Time War Were While Wore

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No one remembers how the American people responded day-to-day, week-to-week, or month-to-month about the decisions that Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower made during the most dangerous decades in American and world history. But we know now that they did what was right, and we honor them for it.

~Donna Brazile

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