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Eisenhower: “The day that we don't have to work, that's the day you will have to call the United States second rate.”

On the recordNovember 1, 1960
The day that we don't have to work, that's the day you will have to call the United States second rate.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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Remarks at a Rally in Herald Square, New York City

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