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Richard Nixon: We cannot stand still simply because it is difficult to go forward.

On the recordApril 17, 1973
We cannot stand still simply because it is difficult to go forward.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

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Special Message to the Congress on Energy Policy.

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