My own message to the NATO governments never varied — I hammered it home everywhere. If we could make a go of a practical pact permitting common military plans, procurement, organization, and control of the forces of NATO, the security of Western Europe would be assured. The region would then become a complex which would be, militarily, economically, and politically, as powerful as any other in the world.


At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends (1967), Book Four (At Peace), Chapter XXIII, The Shape of Things to Come, p. 376

Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

My own message to the NATO governments never varied — I hammered it home everywhere. If we could make a go of a practical pact permitting common...

My own message to the NATO governments never varied — I hammered it home everywhere. If we could make a go of a practical pact permitting common...

My own message to the NATO governments never varied — I hammered it home everywhere. If we could make a go of a practical pact permitting common...

My own message to the NATO governments never varied — I hammered it home everywhere. If we could make a go of a practical pact permitting common...