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Eisenhower: We must first define these tasks and then understand what we must do to accomplish them.

On the recordFebruary 6, 1960
We must first define these tasks and then understand what we must do to accomplish them.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

Editor's note · Context

Memorandum Concerning the Commission on National Goals.

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