1:59:00
America has ever known,
our finest leader of men,
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our most
brilliant strategist,
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a man of inspiration
and a man of action...
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I give you the next president
of the United States,
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five-star General
of the Army...
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Dwight David Eisenhower!
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What kind of president
do you think he's gonna make?
1:59:40
I think he'll make
a fine president.
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He was the best clerk
who ever served under me.
1:59:55
The shadows
are lengthening for me.
2:00:00
Twilight is here.
2:00:03
My days of old have vanished
tone and tint,
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they have gone glimmering through
the dreams of things that were.
2:00:15
Their memory is one...
2:00:18
of wondrous beauty...
2:00:20
watered by tears
and coaxed and caressed...
2:00:23
by the smiles
of yesterday.
2:00:26
I listen vainly
but with thirsty ear...
2:00:29
for the witching melody...
2:00:32
of faint bugles
blowing reveille,
2:00:35
of far drums
beating the long roll.
2:00:40
In my dreams,
I hear the crash of guns,
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the rattle of musketry,
2:00:46
the strange
mournful mutter...
2:00:49
of the battlefield.
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But in the evening
of my memory...
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always I return...