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And the next thing is that every war is going to astonish you in the way it occurred, and in the way it is carried out.

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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