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On the recordDecember 13, 1953
All I am trying to do is appeal to the common sense of America to do what is necessary, not to lose our freedoms, not to be a people that wall constantly in the shadow of fear.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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Remarks Opening the White House Conference of Mayors.

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