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Retired Air Force Gen. Lew Allen Jr., who led the mammoth National Security Agency through a period when congressional scrutiny brought its domestic eavesdropping activities out of the shadows and who later became director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
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Gone but not forgotten!!
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Gene\'s family came over on the Mayflower. He followed family tradition by joining the Navy, becoming an aerographer\'s mate. As a young Meteorologist he predicted three inches of snow for Kennedy\'s inauguration,(it snowed almost two feet). He was the nearest to the actual total. Gene\'s passion was his country and family. He leaves his wife, three children, eight grand-children He will be greatly missed.
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His Inaugural Address offered the memorable injunction: "Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country." As President, he set out to redeem his campaign pledge to get America moving again. His economic programs launched the country on its longest sustained expansion since World War II; before his death, he laid plans for a massive assault on persisting pockets of privation and poverty.
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