On the recordApril 19, 1955
The necessary expenditures to equip and maintain United States armed forces of air and land and sea at strategic points beyond our borders are never called aid.
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presidency.ucsb.eduEisenhower: “The necessary expenditures to equip and maintain United States armed forces of air and land and sea at strategic points…”
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Special Message to the Congress on the Mutual Security Program
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I feel now it would be futile for me to attempt anything else in the way of words.
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