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 | | With respect to the emerging civil rights movement, he has been criticized by liberals for being reluctant to exercise leadership unless forced to. |
 | | In 1957, however, he sent federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas after Governor Orval Faubus attempted to defy a Supreme Court ruling that ordered the desegregation of all public schools. |
 | | President Eisenhower is the only American awarded the British Order of Merit, as well as one of but a few Americans made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, both memberships being honorary, due to his American citizenship. |
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