12/07/1953
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"I have come to believe that a very fine and adequate defense for the United States can at present prices be sustained with an expenditure program, if it can be planned in advance, at about 38 billion ..."
"I am proud to say very heavy Republican support, but it was done and studied thoroughly and passed."
"This Magsaysay did, and in this I believe is his true greatness, the kind of greatness that will be remembered long after any words we can speak here will have been forgotten."
"If we are really to do our full part in combating communism, we must as a unit stand not only ready as Magsaysay did to bare his breast to the bayonet, but to work day by day for the betterment--the s..."