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Every leader should have enough humility to accept, publicly, the responsibility for the mistakes of the subordinates he has himself selected and, likewise, to give them credit, publicly, for their triumphs.
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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Dwight David Eisenhower
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