Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes:
Ocupation: 34th U.S. President
Life: October 14, 1890 - March 28, 1969
Birthday: October 14
Death: March 28
The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities ... We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.
source: Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, delivered 16 April 1953, Statler Hotel, Washington, D.C.
topic: Home, School, Cities, Defense Spending, Cost Of War
