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John Eisenhower [1922-2013] American

Rank: 111
Soldier, Military Officer

John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower was a United States Army officer and military historian. As the son of General, later President, Dwight D.

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Avoiding combat duty was and is an unforgivable sin for a professional soldier.		101
In the summer of 1952, when I was 30, the Army assigned me to an infantry unit fighting in Korea. Meanwhile, though, there was other news in my family: My father had become the Republican presidential nominee. As an ambitious young major, I refused any offers for other assignments.		102
You know, my dad was a lieutenant colonel at Ft. Lewis on the 3rd of March, 1941. Fifteen months later, he was commanding a theater of war.	Dad	103
My dad being an Army officer, I was just born to it. I was raised in a military manner, and it was a given that Army brats went to West Point, so I went to West Point in 1941. And being in the military has been my life.		104
I do not believe that the children of presidents or vice-presidents should be assigned to combat zones. They have no place there.		105
Almost everything else I have done during my adult years has been affected to some extent by my name - by my father's position, if you will. But in the air, I had no name; to the Federal Aviation Agency I was simply Comanche Nine-Nine POP. The quality of my landings, navigation and judgment were mine alone.		106
The British soldiers serving in Afghanistan alongside Prince Harry were in exceptional danger until he was withdrawn.		107
As son of a Republican president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, it is automatically expected by many that I am a Republican. For 50 years, through the election of 2000, I was.		108
Unlike the Afghans and Iraqis, the South Korean people solidly supported the American military presence, which was part of a United Nations operation.		109
I was a lieutenant in World War II.		110
My dad had the greatest admiration for MacArthur when they were working together in Washington before the Philippines. And Dad used to talk with absolute awe about MacArthur's brain.		111
When France fell in 1940, De Gaulle was a temporary brigadier general.		112

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