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Eisenhower: “I signed this with really the prayerful hope that we may be able, with that amount, to sustain the essential interests…”

On the recordAugust 13, 1957
I signed this with really the prayerful hope that we may be able, with that amount, to sustain the essential interests of the United States in the free world.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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