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Eisenhower: “I cannot tell you how much satisfaction it gives to me to know that intelligent Americans are meeting together, whose…”

On the recordOctober 28, 1953
I cannot tell you how much satisfaction it gives to me to know that intelligent Americans are meeting together, whose interests are as broad as this land, whose vision must be projected forward not merely till tomorrow--or possibly an election--but for a century.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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Remarks at the Fourth American Forest Congress.

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