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Eisenhower: “Our sons may stay at home, the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches, and not…”

On the recordJune 21, 1955
Our sons may stay at home, the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches, and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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Remarks at the Vermont State Dairy Festival, Rutland, Vermont.

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