“If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.”

—  Dwight D. Eisenhower

As quoted in Baseball's Greatest Quotes (1992) by Paul Dickson; cited in "Game Day in the Majors" at the Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/robinson/jrgmday.html

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American general and politician, 34th president of the Unit… 1890–1969

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