“...the Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing.”
Eisenhower 1963
I could see him possibly making that statement in August ‘45 when he didn’t really understand the full scope of what happened in Asia. But by 1963 you’d think he would have figured it out.
“Eisenhower 1963. I could see him possibly making that statement in August ‘45 when he didn’t really understand the full scope of what happened in Asia. But by 1963 you’d think he would have figured it out.”
The quote was merely reported in 1963, in Newsweek.
Eisenhower actually spoke those words in 1945 to Secretary of War Stimson: