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Eisenhower: “I don't think that big and bombastic talk is the thing that makes other people fear.”

On the recordFebruary 2, 1954
I don't think that big and bombastic talk is the thing that makes other people fear.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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On the deterrent effect of military power

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