David L. Roll > Quotes

“Eisenhower, the Department is filled with men who analyze their problems well but feel compelled always to bring them to me for final solution. I must have assistants who will solve their own problems and tell me later what they have done.”
― David L. Roll, George Marshall: Defender of the Republic

“Atlantic to France. Before long 150 ships, chartered and paid for by Hoffman’s ECA, were on the high seas carrying cargoes to harbors at Bordeaux, Liverpool, Rotterdam, and Genoa. The psychological effect of the first American ships arriving at ports on the continent, along with the promise of what was to come, cannot be overstated. For the Europeans and the British, the Marshall Plan revived hope for the future, a sense of confidence that economic and political recovery was indeed achievable. For the first time in years, wrote an Economist reporter, “it is fitting that the peoples of”
― David L. Roll, George Marshall: Defender of the Republic

“Litvinov”
― David L. Roll, The Hopkins Touch: Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat Hitler

“Truman awoke on Wednesday morning, November 6, in his private railroad car with "a bad cold and a Republican Congress.”
― David L. Roll, Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's Shadow and Remade the World

“Only eleven days after Truman signed the bill authorizing the Marshall Plan, the victory ship John H. Quick, named after a marine who won the Medal of Honor at Guantánamo Bay in the Spanish-American War, set sail from Galveston, Texas, loaded with grain. The Quick was the first in a fleet of five American ships owned by the Luckenbach Steamship Company to carry fifty-four thousand tons of grain, fertilizer, and a variety of other Marshall Plan necessities across the”
― David L. Roll, George Marshall: Defender of the Republic

“committed”
― David L. Roll, George Marshall: Defender of the Republic

“Western Europe should attempt to renew their capacity for wonder.” For this reason, he wrote, the Marshall Plan “must be seen for what it is—an act without peer in history.”86”
― David L. Roll, George Marshall: Defender of the Republic