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Eisenhower: It is not an administration that sits up in an ivory tower of lonely isolation and gives words of wisdom that all of you…

On the recordSeptember 21, 1953
It is not an administration that sits up in an ivory tower of lonely isolation and gives words of wisdom that all of you must obey or be wrong.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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Remarks at the American Bankers Association Convention.

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