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Eisenhower: “For many years, I think, I personally have put my adverse conclusions on such a tax so far as the Federal Government is…”

On the recordSeptember 29, 1953
For many years, I think, I personally have put my adverse conclusions on such a tax so far as the Federal Government is concerned, and made them public long before I ever thought that I would be in a place I had any responsibility about it.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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