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Eisenhower: “The great sustaining force of America is not simply to be found in its laws or institutions--but in the manners of her…”

On the recordSeptember 9, 1959
The great sustaining force of America is not simply to be found in its laws or institutions--but in the manners of her people, her habits of heart.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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Radio and Television Report to the American People on the European Trip.

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