Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “I developed a practice which, so far as I know, I have never violated. The practice is to avoid public mention of any name unless it can be done with favorable intent and connotation; reserve all criticism for the private conference; speak only good in public.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), 34th US President, WWII GeneralSource: Susan Eisenhower quotes from a letter Ike wrote to a California friend in 1954