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Eisenhower: “If I am not running the executive part of this Government, then I am the man that is mostly fooled in this Nation.”

On the recordOctober 11, 1956
If I am not running the executive part of this Government, then I am the man that is mostly fooled in this Nation.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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