You have broader considerations that might follow what you would call the "falling… — Dwight D. Eisenhower

You have broader considerations that might follow what you would call the "falling domino" principle. 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.

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Eisenhower, Dwight D. Speech on domino theory. News conference. 7 Apr. 1954, Washington, DC, USA.

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