Richard Nixon: “We take this action not for the purpose of expanding the war into…”

On the recordJune 2, 1970

We take this action not for the purpose of expanding the war into Cambodia but for the purpose of ending the war in Vietnam.

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Republican · California

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Address to the Nation on the Cambodian Sanctuary Operation

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