Richard Nixon actually said...

And, so, the most important test, the sternest test to which you must put the two candidates for the Presidency and the Vice Presidency is this: Which of the two men can best lead the United States and the free world and keep the peace without surrender?

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Speech of the Vice President, Convention Hall, Philadelphia, PA

10/04/1960

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