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Eisenhower: I came out here because of a special kind of sickness, one that afflicts the aged and the young--homesickness.

On the recordDecember 16, 1957
I came out here because of a special kind of sickness, one that afflicts the aged and the young--homesickness.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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Remarks at SHAPE Headquarters, Paris

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