Who said you have a row of dominoes

At that time, Croatia was part of the On April 7, , violence fuels the launch of what would become the worst episode of genocide since World War II: the massacre of an estimated , to 1 million innocent civilian Tutsis and moderate Hutus. Following the first wave of massacres, Rwandan forces manage to Weighing 72, tons and outfitted with nine On April 7, , President John F. Kennedy sends a letter to Congress in which he recommends the U.

Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox. After a long winter, the Lewis and Clark expedition departs its camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West. The Corps of Discovery had begun its voyage the previous spring, and it arrived at the large Mandan and Minnetaree villages along the upper Missouri River Wayne appeared in some movies over the course of his long and storied career.

He established his tough, rugged, Two days of heavy fighting conclude near Pittsburgh Landing in western Tennessee. The Battle of Shiloh became a Union victory after the Confederate attack stalled on April 6, and fresh Yankee troops drove the Confederates from the field on April 7. Shiloh began when Union General Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. World War II. State of the Union Address, Feb.

Eisenhower balanced the budget three out of the eight years he was in office. Al Gruenther, April 26, You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it will go over very quickly. So you could have a beginning of a disintegration that would have the most profound influences. Introducing the domino theory, that if Vietnam fell to communism, the rest of Southeast Asia would soon follow.

Press conference, April 7, Press conference, July An angry inquiry referring to a Denver newspaper headline accusing Eisenhower of keeping more trout than the legal limit during a vacation in Colorado. This he cannot stand. Referring to Sen. Joseph McCarthy. Diary entry, April 1, This way must avoid government by bureaucracy as carefully as it avoids neglect of the helpless.

Farewell Address, Jan. I have nothing to say about the matter. Responding to Montgomery's comment, "Lee and Meade should have been sacked," during a tour of the Gettysburg battlefield.

June Response to reporter's question of whether the president could give an example of a major idea of Vice President Nixon's that was adopted by the administration. Press conference, August 24, , during Nixon's presidential campaign. Dick, I could kick myself everytime some jackass brings up that god damn "give me a week" business.

Phone conversation with Nixon, From Nixon Memoirs. PEACE Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. To his secretary after the administration's denial that the Soviets had shot down a U-2 spy plane was proven a lie by Khrushchev's announcement that the U-2's pilot, Francis Gary Powers, had been captured alive.