Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Eisenhower Center
Abilene, Kansas

“When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing, and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank, we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major league ballplayer, a real professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said he’d like to be the president of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.”
       —Dwight D. Eisenhower

U.S. postage stamp honoring
Dwight D. Eisenhower, issued in 1990