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Eisenhower: America wants peace, is ready to conciliate, is ready to match reasonableness with reasonableness, but it simply won't…

On the recordJanuary 20, 1959
America wants peace, is ready to conciliate, is ready to match reasonableness with reasonableness, but it simply won't be pushed around.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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