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Eisenhower: “It is an attempt to help out in cases of unemployment with useful work rather than with work that wouldn't be so useful…”

On the recordJanuary 12, 1954
It is an attempt to help out in cases of unemployment with useful work rather than with work that wouldn't be so useful to the United States.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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