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Richard Nixon: The world in which I have grown up has not been an open world, not an open world because so much of it was closed by…

On the recordNovember 30, 1971
The world in which I have grown up has not been an open world, not an open world because so much of it was closed by curtains--iron curtains, bamboo curtains, call it what you will.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

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Remarks to the National 4-H Congress in Chicago, Illinois.

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