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Eisenhower: “To think that in this we were just trying to score a propaganda point, well, to my mind it's just--almost silly to talk…”

On the recordApril 29, 1958
To think that in this we were just trying to score a propaganda point, well, to my mind it's just--almost silly to talk of it in that way.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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