Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes:
Ocupation: 34th U.S. President
Life: October 14, 1890 - March 28, 1969
Birthday: October 14
Death: March 28
I had been conscious a feeling of depression and so I voiced to [Secretary Of War Stimson] my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at this very moment, seeking a way to surrender with a minimum loss of 'face.'
source: "Mandate for Change: The White House Years, 1953-1956". Book by Dwight D. Eisenhower, pp. 312-313, 1963.
topic: Country, War, Loss, Misgivings, Atomic Bomb, Dropping Bombs, Bombing, Atomic War, Hiroshima And Nagasaki
