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Eisenhower: “I most thoroughly believe in young men, and I think it is a very simple proposition: if I am lucky I may own 15 or 20…”

On the recordOctober 19, 1954
I most thoroughly believe in young men, and I think it is a very simple proposition: if I am lucky I may own 15 or 20 years of the United States.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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Remarks at the Trinity College Convocation, Hartford, Connecticut

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