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Eisenhower: “But for his well-being today, the farmer must look not merely to his own skills and his own fertile acres; he must look…”

On the recordOctober 14, 1953
But for his well-being today, the farmer must look not merely to his own skills and his own fertile acres; he must look to the far corners of this broad land and on beyond to such far-off regions as Malaya and the Belgian Congo.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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Address at the Annual Convention of the Future Farmers of America, Kansas City, Missouri

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