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Also known as FBI Agent Jason

Federal Bureau of Investigationemployer

Also known as FBI Agent Jason

Notable quotes

“If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.”
— Apocryphal
“The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength — and strength alone.”
— A speech at an English Speaking Union Dinner (3 July 1951). It is currently on display on the wall of Eisenhower Hall at the USMA at West Point in New York. Eisenhower Memorial Commission
“You have got to have something in which to believe. You have got to have leaders, organization, friendships, and contacts that help you to believe that, and help you to put out your best.”
— Remarks to the Leaders of the United Defense Fund (April 29, 1954). Source: Eisenhower Presidential Library. Archived from the original on January 25, 2021.
“Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.”
— Address at the Cow Palace on Accepting the Nomination of the Republican National Convention (August 23, 1956). Source: Eisenhower Presidential Library. Archived from the original on January 25, 2021.
“I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.”
— TV talk with Prime Minister Macmillan (31 August 1959)
“[James R. Killian] saw Eisenhower a few months before his death. The former President asked about "my scientists" and said, "You know, Jim, this bunch of scientists was one of the few groups that I encountered in Washington who seemed to be there to help the country and not themselves."”
— Quoted in Rabi, Scientist and Citizen (2000) by John S. Rigden, p. 251

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