Dwight Eisenhower actually said...

Washington is there to help coordinate, to help in every kind of thing that, as Lincoln put it: to help in those things which people cannot ...

We do not, as we see it, want to be the great bosses of America.

I spent a long time in the Army, and we had textbooks that told why a commander should go around and visit the people who were doing the act...

I know of nothing--particularly for one who has to spend a great deal of his time in Washington in an official position--that can take the p...