Dwight Eisenhower actually said...

"I would rather see it repealed than be kept."

"America wants peace, is ready to conciliate, is ready to match reasonableness with reasonableness, but it simply won't be pushed around."

"The expanding economy is a thing that I believe I have talked more about than almost any individual that I know of, publicly."

"On behalf of the American people I thank you for your message and extend to you their warm welcome to this nation--a welcome which I shall have the privilege of extending to you personally when I meet..."