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Executive PrivilegeOne day following his retirement, Dwight Eisenhower was asked whether his departure from the White House had affected his golf game. "Yes," he replied, "a lot more people beat me now!"
[The trophy given annually to the world's best amateur golf team is... the Eisenhower Trophy.]
[Trivia: Eisenhower was a reluctant politician. Until he won the Republican nomination in 1952, neither he nor his wife had ever voted. "As an intellectual," Emmet John Hughes once remarked, "he bestowed upon the games of golf and bridge all the enthusiasm and perseverance that he withheld from his books and ideas."]
Eisenhower, Dwight David (1890-1969) American general and politian, commander of American troops in Britain and Allied troops in North Africa and Italy (1942-43), supreme Allied commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force (1943-44), supreme NATO commander (1956), 34th president of the United States (1953-62) [noted for his supervision of the Normandy landings (1943-44) and defeat of Germany (1945); for his handling (as president) of the end of the Korean War (1953), domestic racial difficulties, cold war with the Soviet Union, and diplomatic differences with Cuba (1961); and for his 'Eisenhower Doctrine' (the attempt to bolster the Middle East against Communism by offering economic and military aid, 1957)]
[Sources: Paul Boller, Presidential Anecdotes; Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts]More Dwight Eisenhower anecdotesRelated Anecdote Keywords:
Self-Deprecation Sports Golf Amateurs Competition Flattery Sycophants Manners
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