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Eisenhower: “We don't want any war, and anyone who has had certainly the kind of experience with war that I have had can say this…”

On the recordSeptember 29, 1953
We don't want any war, and anyone who has had certainly the kind of experience with war that I have had can say this with such a passion, almost, as to put war at the very last of any possible solutions to the world's difficulties.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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