Eisenhower said "But one thing I did know: that I had promised a lot of people that if ever I got in politics, I was going to come to the South." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordOctober 16, 1953

But one thing I did know: that I had promised a lot of people that if ever I got in politics, I was going to come to the South.

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Republican · Kansas

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Remarks to a Group of Republican Workers in New Orleans

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