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Harry Truman
- poor eyesight,
- one election in 1948,
- unpopular because of bad economy, firing McArther, scandal going on
- dropped atomic bombs
- started stopping of communism
- stopped segregation in war
- started CIA
- Fair Deal - domestic policy helping olds, blacks, economy
- Israel is home for Jews
Dwight Eisenhower
- General in WWll
- assumed command over NATO
- won election of 1952 and 1956 against Adlai Stevenson
- NASA, desegregated army and schools (Borwns vs. Board of Education of Kansas), balanced budget, ended Korean War
- interstate highway system, civil right bill of 1957, furthered social security
- space race
- peaceful presidency
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