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Obama's name (particularly his middle name Hussein) was the object of xenophobic innuendo questioning his loyalty (especially in the context of US military intervention in the Near East). Was Eisenhower's German surname ever the object of similar distrust (i.e., suspicion he might be a secret Nazi)?

by /u/JJVMT in /r/AskHistorians

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