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“ ”I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives.
About Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David Eisenhower (14 October 1890 – 28 March 1969), also widely known by his nickname "Ike", was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe, and achieved the rare five-star rank of General of the Army. He was responsible for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–1943 and the successful invasion of Normandy in 1944–1945 from the Western Front.
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Additional quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it.
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.