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Eisenhower: “I have come to believe that a very fine and adequate defense for the United States can at present prices be sustained…”

On the recordSeptember 2, 1957
I have come to believe that a very fine and adequate defense for the United States can at present prices be sustained with an expenditure program, if it can be planned in advance, at about 38 billion dollars.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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