Eisenhower: “Individual initiative, harnessed together for the good of the whole…”

On the recordMay 22, 1955

Individual initiative, harnessed together for the good of the whole, is the most productive inspiration and impulse we have.

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Republican · Kansas

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Remarks to the President's Committee on the Employment of the Physically Handicapped.

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