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Eisenhower: Our Nation has no desire for a monopoly on the knowledge and practice of these possibilities.

On the recordJune 10, 1955
Our Nation has no desire for a monopoly on the knowledge and practice of these possibilities.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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Address at the Centennial Commencement of Pennsylvania State University.

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