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Richard Nixon: “Everything you do really matters, because when any part of our country is isolated, when any part of it is torn apart…”

On the recordJune 3, 1970
Everything you do really matters, because when any part of our country is isolated, when any part of it is torn apart, when there is hatred in any part of the country or prejudice, it hurts the whole country.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

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Remarks to the Presidential Scholars of 1970.

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