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Richard Nixon: The time has come for us to recognize that violence and terror have no place in a free society, whatever the purported…

On the recordSeptember 15, 1970
The time has come for us to recognize that violence and terror have no place in a free society, whatever the purported cause or the perpetrators may be.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

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Address in the Alfred M. Landon Lecture Series at Kansas State University

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