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Who Said It? 9/23/12

President Dwight D. Eisenhower  Press Release announcing  Executive Order 10734  which ordered troops into Little Rock, Arkansas (9/24/1957) to enforce a federal court desegregation order via the Eisenhower Presidential Library

 

Posted on September 23, 2012

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