I think one of Ike’s quotes was, “Up to this point, I have been the most powerful man in the world, tomorrow [June 6], I am going to be the most powerless.”
And he did what a great leader did, After giving the order that might have ended in the decimation of the paratroop divisions, he went down to talk to them—face to face, man to man, and stayed until the last plane left. Then we went back to London to watch to see if he had won his gamble. HIS finest hour.