Richard Nixon actually said...

The Speaker's announcement today will give a special poignancy to this luncheon, and there I shall join his senior colleagues and some of his host of personal friends in saluting this truly great American.

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Statement About the Retirement From the Congress of Speaker McCormack

05/19/1970

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