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Richard Nixon: “One of the greatest disservice that the disrupters have done in fact is precisely that, to reflect unfairly on those…”

On the recordSeptember 15, 1970
One of the greatest disservice that the disrupters have done in fact is precisely that, to reflect unfairly on those millions of students, like those in this room, who do go to college for an education.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

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Address in the Alfred M. Landon Lecture Series at Kansas State University

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