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Eisenhower: Leadership is not proved by a mere whirling across the public stage in a burst of glib oratory.

On the recordSeptember 28, 1960
Leadership is not proved by a mere whirling across the public stage in a burst of glib oratory.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

Editor's note · Context

Address in Chicago at the 1960 Victory Fund Dinner Rally

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