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Eisenhower: Everything that I can constitutionally do will be done to prevent the outbreak of hostilities in that section.

On the recordFebruary 7, 1956
Everything that I can constitutionally do will be done to prevent the outbreak of hostilities in that section.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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