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The day will come when the people will make so insistent their demand that there be peace in the world that the Governments will get out of the way and let them have peace.

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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