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In his memoirs Eisenhower wrote that after 1955, "no region of the world received as much of my close attention and that of my colleagues as did the Middle East." What did he mean by that? Other than the Suez crisis, what else happened that demanded his attention?

by /u/TheHondoGod in /r/AskHistorians

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