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Eisenhower: I came to Europe with an army, a navy, an air force, with a single purpose: to destroy Nazism.

On the recordJuly 15, 1955
I came to Europe with an army, a navy, an air force, with a single purpose: to destroy Nazism.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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Remarks Upon Arrival at the Airport in Geneva

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