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Eisenhower: We are still too close to the beginnings of the new Department to see fully and in a wide perspective all that you have…

On the recordJuly 12, 1955
We are still too close to the beginnings of the new Department to see fully and in a wide perspective all that you have accomplished.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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Letter Accepting the Resignation of Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.

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