Dwight Eisenhower actually said...

Washington is there to help coordinate, to help in every kind of thing that, as Lincoln put it: to help in those things which people cannot do for themselves, or cannot so well do for themselves.

Context

Remarks at the Airport, McCook, Nebraska

09/03/1954

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