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Eisenhower: “Your statement with respect to the Secretary of State is not only unwarranted, but is personally offensive to me.”

On the recordOctober 20, 1956
Your statement with respect to the Secretary of State is not only unwarranted, but is personally offensive to me.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

Editor's note · Context

Letter to Nikolai Bulganin, Chairman, Council of Ministers, U. S. S. R.

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