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Contingency Statement
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
With the death of Dwight David Eisenhower, something
irreplaceable has gone out of the lives of us all.
General Eisenhower held a unique place in America's
history, and in its heart, and in the hearts of people the world
over.
For a quarter of a century he spoke with a moral authority
seldom equalled in American public life. This was not only
because he held the nation's highest military rank and its highest
civilian office, but more importantly because of the kind of a man
he was. He was a man of great strength, wisdom and compassion.
But it always seemed to me that two qualities stood out above all
in both his public and his private life: one was an unwavering
sense of duty; the other was that whatever he did, he did because
he believed it was right.
The measure of Dwight Eisenhower's place in history is
that we have to reach back two centuries, to the first days of our
Republic, to find another American who was "a citizen, first in war,
first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen."
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