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Eisenhower: “You young people still own, let us say, 60 years of our country--far more than I do.”

On the recordOctober 18, 1953
You young people still own, let us say, 60 years of our country--far more than I do.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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Remarks Following the Dedication of Falcon Dam

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