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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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This is something, eh, that is the kind of thing that must be gone through with what I believe is best not talked about too much until we know whatever answers there will be.
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Response to questions about the investigation of Robert Oppenheimer's supposed Communist sympathies
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Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1954), p. 435
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Cited in Brendon, Piers (1986). "The Dawn of Tranquility". Ike: His Life & Times (1st edition ed.). New York: Harper & Row. pp. p. 270 of 478. ISBN 0-06-015508-6. 

 
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