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Leadership is the ability to decide what is to be done and then get others to do it.
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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Firmness in support of fundamentals, with flexibility in tactics and methods, is the key to any hope of progress in negotiation.
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In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war.
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