Eisenhower: “Our school system is more important than ever before, because the job…”

On the recordOctober 14, 1953

Our school system is more important than ever before, because the job of being an American citizen is more complex than ever before in our history.

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Republican · Kansas

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Remarks at the Cornerstone-Laying Ceremony for the Anthony Wayne Library of American Study, Defiance College, Defiance, Ohio

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