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Eisenhower: The importance of the place they occupy in American life needs not fewer but more of them.

On the recordOctober 14, 1953
The importance of the place they occupy in American life needs not fewer but more of them.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Cornerstone-Laying Ceremony for the Anthony Wayne Library of American Study, Defiance College, Defiance, Ohio

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