82 Years Later, the Note Eisenhower Wrote in Case D-Day Failed Is Still the Greatest Act of Leadership in American Military History

Sixty-six words, misdated in exhaustion, with the passive voice scratched out so the blame read "I" — Eisenhower's in-case-of-failure note took ownership of a disaster that never came. The fears before D-Day, the storm that vindicated the gamble, and the slip of paper under glass that helps explain the 1952 landslide.