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Eisenhower: “This audience peculiarly symbolizes the smallest and the most important of these units—the American family.”

On the recordOctober 5, 1953
This audience peculiarly symbolizes the smallest and the most important of these units—the American family.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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Address at the Sixth National Assembly of the United Church Women, Atlantic City, New Jersey

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