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Richard Nixon: when electing a President of the United States, to think not of your party label first, but of the country first

On the recordSeptember 28, 1960
when electing a President of the United States, to think not of your party label first, but of the country first
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

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Partial Transcript of Remarks by the Vice President, Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, VT

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