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Eisenhower: “We must develop a foreign economic program that will expand trade, encourage investment, help bring about currency…”

On the recordOctober 24, 1954
We must develop a foreign economic program that will expand trade, encourage investment, help bring about currency convertibility, and reduce the need for direct aid to other countries.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

Editor's note · Context

Address at the Forrestal Memorial Award Dinner of the National Security Industrial Association.

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