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Richard Nixon: I think perhaps the most appropriate comment I could make with regard to your husband, Mrs. Goddard, is to quote one of…

On the recordMarch 4, 1969
I think perhaps the most appropriate comment I could make with regard to your husband, Mrs. Goddard, is to quote one of my favorite quotations: The reason that we can see further than the ancients is that we stand on the shoulders of the giants who have gone before us.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

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Remarks on Presenting the Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy to the Apollo 8 Astronauts.

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