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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 4387500, member: 66&quot;]Two comments, or additional facts.</p><p><br /></p><p>The combination of the moon landing with Eisenhower on the dollar was additionally pertinent, because NASA was founded under the Eisenhower Administration.</p><p><br /></p><p>And in the realm of &quot;Pork Barrel&quot;, $1 from the sale of each of the proof 40% silver Ike dollars (1971 - 74, and apparently 76) was earmarked for Eisenhower College in Seneca Falls, New York (On condition that 10% of the money received would be sent to the Samuel Rayburn Library in Bonham, Texas.)&nbsp; Eisenhower college, a liberal arts school of some 460 students began in 1968 and lasted about as long as the Ike dollars did, in 1979 it was taken over by the Rochester Institute of Technology and closed in 1982.&nbsp; They considered turning it into a prison, but eventually it became the New York Chiropractic College.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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