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Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he would lock his eyes on to mine and keep them there.
Stephen Ambrose
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Stephen Ambrose
Age: 66 †
Born: 1936
Born: January 10
Died: 2002
Died: October 13
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Stephen Edward Ambrose
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Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.
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Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.
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During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.
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The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.
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Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.
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History is everything that has ever happened.
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I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.
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Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.
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I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.
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