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Eisenhower: I come to you, not only to understand you better, but to ask you only to support, always, those principles, to think of…

On the recordJune 21, 1955
I come to you, not only to understand you better, but to ask you only to support, always, those principles, to think of them and to expand them in your own mind into method, as to how we shall do it.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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Remarks at the Vermont State Dairy Festival, Rutland, Vermont.

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