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Eisenhower, Dwight David
     
Eisenhower, Dwight David
(1890-1969) a US politician in the Republican Party, who was President of the US from 1953 to 1961. Eisenhower was a general in the US army during World War II, and he became the commander of all the Allied forces in Europe, leading the attack on D-day in 1944. People informally called him Ike.
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