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Eisenhower: “General, we have got ourselves in a funny fix.”

On the recordSeptember 22, 1954
General, we have got ourselves in a funny fix.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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Address at the Dedication of McNary Dam, Walla Walla, Washington

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