October 14, 2022
QUOTE
Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex.
No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable,
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
--All from President Dwight D. Eisenhower
BIRTHDAYS
1890 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, General and politician, 34th President of the United States
1893 – Lillian Gish, Actress
1894 – E. E. Cummings, Poet and playwright
1900 – W. Edwards Deming, Statistician, author, and academic
1927 – Roger Moore, English actor and producer
1952 – Harry Anderson, Actor and screenwriter
IN MEMORY
1959 – Errol Flynn, Australian-American actor, singer, and producer
1977 – Bing Crosby, Singer-songwriter and actor
1990 – Leonard Bernstein, Pianist, composer, and conductor
2006 – Freddy Fender, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
IN ON THIS DAY
1322 – Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at the Battle of Old Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland’s independence.
1586 – Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial for conspiracy against Queen Elizabeth I of England.
1884 – George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
1912 – Former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot and mildly wounded by John Flammang Schrank. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech.
1968 – The first live television broadcast by American astronauts in orbit is performed by the Apollo 7 crew.
1968 – Jim Hines becomes the first man ever to break the so-called “ten-second barrier” in the 100-meter sprint with a time of 9.95 seconds.