Eisenhower and Washington Both Spoke Out Against War

“God help the Nation when it has a President who doesn’t know as much about the military as I do,” President Dwight D. Eisenhower speaking to his White House Staff Secretary, Gen. Andrew Goodpaster.These words are quoted in a book about Eisenhower’s foreign policy called “Ike’s Bluff—President Eisenhower’s Secret Battle To Save The World” by Evan Thomas.In the same paragraph as the words above are these: “When Defense Secretary Neil McElroy warned him that further cuts would harm national security, Eisenhower acerbically replied, ‘If you go to any military installation in the world. . .