Dwight Eisenhower actually said...

The fact that our Government rests and is founded on a deeply-felt religious faith gives to my appearance, even before such a body, a certain validity--say, a certain fitness.

Context

Remarks at a Luncheon Meeting of the General Board of the National Council of Churches.

11/17/1953

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