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Eisenhower: In a free democracy like ours, less and less, not more and more, should devolve on Government.

On the recordOctober 13, 1957
In a free democracy like ours, less and less, not more and more, should devolve on Government.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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Message to the Atlantic City Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons.

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