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Eisenhower

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Dwight D. Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961. A member of the Republican Party, he was born in Kansas and rose to prominence as a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II. Eisenhower served as the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe, overseeing the successful D-Day invasion and the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control.

Quotes by year · 195319611,836 total · peak 1954 (575)
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Jun 28, 1955

All the details of this bill I am not completely certain about because, after all, I have not had time to study it.

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Jun 28, 1955

Well, of course, we have cut way back from the level that we once maintained.

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Jun 28, 1955

Now, Therefore, I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, and by section 7 (c) of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of…

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Jun 28, 1955

I would like to see one bill, which is so terrifically important to the United States, be handled specifically on its own merits and without the introduction of any other kind of matter.

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Jun 28, 1955

It is hereby ordered that any individual income tax return made with respect to a tax imposed under chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939 or under chapter 1 or chapter 2 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 shall be open to…

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Jun 28, 1955

I merely want to express great gratification that he came over.

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Jun 27, 1955

The term 'duty as human acceleration or deceleration experimental subject' shall be construed to mean duty performed by members exposed as human acceleration or deceleration experimental subjects utilizing experimental acceleration or…

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Jun 27, 1955

The operation of those provisions of paragraph 3, subsection (d), section 514 of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947 which are applicable to the mandatory retirement of colonels of the Regular Army is hereby suspended until termination of…

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Jun 27, 1955

The interests and activities of the different levels of government now impinge on each other at innumerable points, even where they may appear to be quite separable.

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Jun 27, 1955

The framers of our Constitution reached a solution now recognized as one of the most significant advances in the history of representative government.

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Jun 27, 1955

I commend to the attention of the Congress, as well as of State and local executives and legislatures, the recommendations pertaining to them.

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Jun 27, 1955

But I hope it means no lessening either of our friendship or of my ability to call on you when I want to talk to you about things.

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