Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER: | 924 |
AUTHOR: | Dwight David Eisenhower (18901969) |
QUOTATION: | Biggest damfool mistake I ever made. |
ATTRIBUTION: | William B. Ewald, Jr., research assistant for Eisenhowers memoirs, says in Eisenhower the President, p. 95 (1981), I myself once, and once only, heard him say in Gettysburg in 1961, The two worst appointments I ever made came out of recommendations from the Justice Department: that fellow who headed the Antitrust Division, Bicks, and Earl Warren. |
SUBJECTS: | Judges |