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Eisenhower: “I believe in free enterprise, and I believe in the exercise by the States of the rights that are specifically reserved…”

On the recordFebruary 7, 1956
I believe in free enterprise, and I believe in the exercise by the States of the rights that are specifically reserved to them.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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