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If not in a $ 95 casket, there was at least one president who was buried in a simple $ 195 casket: Dwight D. Eisenhower.

His soldier's casket had a rectangular state design and was made of steel with stationary bar handles.

The outer color was silver-gray. The interior consisted of ivory colored crepe. At the time of President Eisenhower's death (1969), the US government provided this casket at a price of $ 80 for the funeral of its active or retired soldiers. The former president had expressed his will to be buried in one of these simple caskets. Nevertheless, he got a "special edition" because the standard military casket was custom equipped for him with an inner full length oval glass lid to give it the feature of a hermetical seal, making it air and water tight. The additional price for this extra feature was $ 115. Thus, Dwight D. Eisenhower was buried in a $ 195 casket.

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