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Eisenhower

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Dwight D. Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961. A member of the Republican Party, he was born in Kansas and rose to prominence as a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II. Eisenhower served as the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe, overseeing the successful D-Day invasion and the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control.

Quotes by year · 195319611,836 total · peak 1954 (575)
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Apr 24, 1956

I will only say this: in all such proposals, as always, you have to take a look at all the details that are placed before you.

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Apr 24, 1956

I think that the particular issues in which there should be some agreement are well understood.

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Apr 24, 1956

I do want to point out there is a very, very long distance between a laboratory capacity or capability of doing something and making an instrument, a really efficient, effective instrument of war.

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Apr 24, 1956

We are always keeping forces in the Mediterranean, as you well know.

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Apr 24, 1956

Yes, I heard from Governor Stassen, had his report this morning, which is long enough to require more study than I have been able to give it before I would want to comment on it at any length.

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Apr 24, 1956

I believe if we get such a thing established, I would like to do it with the greatest possible cooperation of everybody that has an interest in the Government.

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Apr 15, 1956

I conclude that the bill is contradictory and self-defeating even as an emergency relief measure.

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Apr 15, 1956

We now have sound and forward-looking legislation in the Agricultural Act of 1954.

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Apr 15, 1956

I now request Congress to pass a straight Soil Bank Bill as promptly as possible.

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