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Eisenhower: America is a place of differing convictions, and if anyone wants to sit in an ivory tower and hear only from those…

On the recordMay 1, 1955
America is a place of differing convictions, and if anyone wants to sit in an ivory tower and hear only from those people who believe with him, again, America will not be what he would hope it would be.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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Remarks at the Governors' Conference Dinner.

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