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Eisenhower: “We are talking about the kind of government that does its own part in helping to look after the human needs of this…”

On the recordSeptember 20, 1956
We are talking about the kind of government that does its own part in helping to look after the human needs of this country.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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Remarks to Republican Leaders and Precinct Workers and a Group of Newspaper Editors, Des Moines, Iowa

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