Eisenhower: “For the first time in 20 years, there is no active battlefield…”

On the recordOctober 14, 1954

For the first time in 20 years, there is no active battlefield anywhere in the world.

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Republican · Kansas

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Address at Butler University, Indianapolis, Before the National Institute of Animal Agriculture

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Eisenhower: “For the first time in 20 years, there is no active battlefield anywhere in the world.”