When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

Robert Oppenheimer had urged that the H-bomb work be delayed; Eisenhower removed him from the agency and revoked his security clearance though he knew this would create fertile ground for the extremist McCarthy. Mideast and Eisenhower doctrine

Even before he was inaugurated Eisenhower accepted a request from the British government to restore the Shah to power. Completely missing out on the warfront left him depressed and bitter for a time despite being given the DistinguiDwight D. Eisenhowerd Service Medal for his work at home.

After World War II Eisenhower served as Army Chief of Staff under President Harry S. Presidents. Truman then assumed the post of President at Columbia University.