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Eisenhower: If it is good for 168 million Americans, get behind it and shove!

On the recordSeptember 20, 1956
If it is good for 168 million Americans, get behind it and shove!
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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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