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Eisenhower: “Certainly it is that whatever we help to do engages our attention and our interest more deeply than those things that…”

On the recordSeptember 21, 1954
Certainly it is that whatever we help to do engages our attention and our interest more deeply than those things that seem to us to be free and to come without effort.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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Remarks at Dedication of Aerial Fire Depot, Municipal Airport, Missoula, Montana

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