Dwight Eisenhower actually said...

"I most earnestly hope that the Congress will support this particular part of the bill to the full."

"I signed this with really the prayerful hope that we may be able, with that amount, to sustain the essential interests of the United States in the free world."

"I believe that under the circumstances existing at the time that war began, the war was necessary."

"However, as you people well know, I don't think that any of you ought to interpret anything I say in terms of a threat of any kind."