Richard Nixon: “We cannot let an obsession with the past destroy our hopes for the…”

On the recordAugust 14, 1973

We cannot let an obsession with the past destroy our hopes for the future.

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Republican · California

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Address to the Nation About the Watergate Investigations.

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Richard Nixon: “We cannot let an obsession with the past destroy our hopes for the future.”