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Eisenhower: “If each of you is lucky, you own about 60 years.”

On the recordOctober 19, 1954
If each of you is lucky, you own about 60 years.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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Remarks at the Trinity College Convocation, Hartford, Connecticut

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