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National Geographic : 1969 Jul
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to a Great American members of the National Geographic staff gave the last of many bulletins on the general's failing heart. In a voice that faltered and broke, he informed the press and the world: "General of the Army Dwight David Eisen hower, 34th President of the United States, died quietly at 12:25 this noon, after a long and heroic battle against overwhelming ill ness. His passing was peaceful, and he ex perienced no distress." News Lowered Flags Around the Globe The news had not been unexpected; all over the globe black headlines in many lan guages had borne the word that Ike was dying. Nonetheless it came as a blow; a world with- out Ike would not be quite the same. Many felt that an era was ending. Now flags fluttered to half-staff from the White House to Whitehall, from Seoul to Stockholm, from Brasilia to Beirut. Presi dent Nixon, for eight years Ike's Vice Pres ident, proclaimed Monday, March 31, a Na tional Day of Mourning: "I invite the people of the world who share our grief to join us in this day of mourning and rededication." Gov ernment offices and many businesses closed. Then, slow and solemn as the tolling of a bell, came the memorial service at the Wash ington Cathedral, the lying-in-state beneath the Capitol dome, the eulogy, the funeral, and APHIC
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