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Eisenhower: “With all its defects, with all the failures that we can check up against it, it still represents man's best organized…”

On the recordSeptember 22, 1953
With all its defects, with all the failures that we can check up against it, it still represents man's best organized hope to substitute the conference table for the battlefield.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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Remarks to the Members of the United States Committee for United Nations Day.

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