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Which US President was in office during the U-2 incident?

  • John F. Kennedy

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

  • Lyndon B. Johnson

  • Richard Nixon

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Dwight D. Eisenhower served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During his presidency, a significant event known as the U-2 incident occurred on May 1, 1960. It involved an American U-2 spy plane that was shot down while conducting a reconnaissance mission over the Soviet Union, escalating tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War.
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