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Eisenhower: “Our desire is a world environment of freedom, not servitude.”

On the recordJanuary 4, 1957
Our desire is a world environment of freedom, not servitude.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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Special Message to the Congress on the Situation in the Middle East

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