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Eisenhower: “Good government is your own responsibility--not someone else's.”

On the recordOctober 19, 1958
Good government is your own responsibility--not someone else's.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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Radio and Television Address Delivered at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California

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