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You have a row of dominoes set up you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Age: 78 †
Born: 1890
Born: October 14
Died: 1969
Died: March 28
34Th U.S. President
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