Dwight Eisenhower actually said...

The Louisiana Purchase effectively doubled the area of our young nation, brought this country unimagined wealth, and gave us strength and international influence beyond the dreams of our nation's founders just 25 years earlier.

Context

Address in New Orleans at the Ceremony Marking the 150th Anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase

10/16/1953

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