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On the recordOctober 23, 1960
People must meet and understand other people, and so doing make it ever more difficult for governments, responding to false prides or even worse, personal ambitions, to sustain dictatorships.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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Address in Houston Before the Faculty and Students of Rice University

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