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Eisenhower: The necessary expenditures to equip and maintain United States armed forces of air and land and sea at strategic points…

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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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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Special Message to the Congress on the Mutual Security Program

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