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Eisenhower: We can take satisfaction from the past, but no complacency in the present.

On the recordDecember 15, 1957
We can take satisfaction from the past, but no complacency in the present.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Opening of the NATO Meetings in Paris

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