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Richard Nixon: “Whether man's response to that challenge will be a cause for pride or for despair in the year 2000 will depend very much…”

On the recordJuly 17, 1969
Whether man's response to that challenge will be a cause for pride or for despair in the year 2000 will depend very much on what we do today.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

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Message to the Congress on population growth

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