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Eisenhower: “My friends, an enlightened trade policy in the international world for the United States means only this: we are trying…”

On the recordMay 1, 1955
My friends, an enlightened trade policy in the international world for the United States means only this: we are trying to build a bridge, a permanent bridge, that will connect a growing and widely-shared prosperity at home with international peace.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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Remarks at the Annual Meeting of the United States Chamber of Commerce.

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