Dwight Eisenhower actually said...

The results of these endeavors will profoundly affect our leadership and prestige in the Far East and indeed throughout the free world.

I am not going to participate in local contests.

No one could be more bitterly opposed to ever getting the United States involved in a hot war in that region than I am.

I cannot conceive of a greater tragedy for America than to get heavily involved now in an all-out war in any of those regions, particularly ...