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Identifying the Central Idea in President Eisenhower's Speech
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Identifying the Central Idea in President Eisenhower's Speech 34 Views


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all right next question in the land of Eisenhower alright batter up what is the

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central idea of the third aircraft line 1949 [text on screen]

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let's just cruise back here and see if we can skim and kind of have a clue

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crises there will continue to be any of them every condition feels like a

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concoction contractile solutions all currently viewed increase in New Orleans

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or defensive Ellis program stir every Agriculture dramatic expansion basic

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Applied Research these in many other possibilities he possibly promising

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itself because guess it's the way the road we would do it well the second

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sentence up here right here this one sums Eisenhower's central idea perfectly

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he says the u.s. is inclined to spend a lot of money on things that seem like [writing on chalkboard]

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perfect solutions but that it's a temptation like blast temptation of the

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you know who the choice of the word temptation here implies that well I just

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doesn't think all these solutions should be accepted at face value if you don't [president in a lab coat]

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believe us we'll check out the next paragraph you know right in here it's

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like show me baby Eisenhower is a fan of technology he mentions numerous [writing on chalkboard]

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innovations and calls them all possibly promising that's not the same as saying

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they're definitely the solution yeah he's urging balance like also mentioned [president in toga]

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several areas being funded but he does it to give examples of costly actions

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that may or may not be as helpful as they seem and so the answer is D many [text on screen]

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different costly and complicated solutions are put forward during a

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crisis it's like the guy falling off the cliff he'll grab it in [man hanging off cliff]

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