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...historian Stephen Ambrose was talking to retired General and President Dwight Eisenhower, who had commanded the invasion. Ike suddenly asked Ambrose if he had known Andrew Higgins. Ambrose had not. "That's too bad," Eisenhower said. "He is the man who won the war for us. If Higgins had not designed and built those landing craft, we never would have landed over an open beach. The whole strategy of the war would have been different...
...ships accompanied by an additional 4,000 small craft of the invasion armada had already put to sea. On that June morning in 1944, screaming winds rattled the windows of the British naval headquarters near Portsmouth, where the D-day commanders were meeting. The rain, as General Dwight D. Eisenhower later recalled, lashed down in "horizontal streaks." A Royal Air Force meteorologist, however, cautiously predicted clearing skies for the next day, June 6. Eisenhower conferred with the generals and admirals gathered around him. He thought for less than a minute, then stood up. "O.K.," he said...
...Europe perfectly, because nothing in war goes precisely according to plan. But those who look back and say he could have defeated Hitler sooner are playing games with history and hindsight. In the tumult of battle, with colleagues second-guessing him and comrades dying by the hundreds every day, Dwight Eisenhower made decisions that won the war in Europe and established a peace that prevails today...
...none of the Democratic candidates raised nearly as much money as incumbent Republican Governor William F. Weld '66, according to Dwight D. Robson, deputy press secretary to gubernatorial candidate and state Rep. Mark Roosevelt...
...Dwight D. Robson, a Roosevelt campaign spokesperson, said he knew nothing about the press conference...