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President Eisenhower wrote, “Our libraries serve the precious liberties of our nations:…” To which of the following liberties was Eisenhower NOT referring?

Freedom to censure.
Freedom to have opposing ideas.
Freedom to think for ourselves.
Freedom of speech.

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Answer: Freedom to censure

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Eisenhower was firmly against censure and defended the freedom of speech and to hold opposing ideas. Allegedly in response to a purge of books written by suspected communists and their sympathizers, which included major authors like Langston Hughes and Jean-Paul Sartre, he said: “We have got to fight it with something better, not try to conceal the thinking of our own people. They are part of America. And even if they think ideas that are contrary to ours, their right to say them, their right to record them, and their right to have them at places where they are accessible to others is unquestioned, or it isn’t America.”

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