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Eisenhower: “It is fitting that we should pause each year to observe Bataan Day and to remind ourselves that liberty and justice are…”

On the recordApril 7, 1960
It is fitting that we should pause each year to observe Bataan Day and to remind ourselves that liberty and justice are, indeed, worth whatever price we may be called upon to pay.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

Editor's note · Context

Message to President Garcia of the Philippines on the Occasion of Bataan Day.

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