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Richard Nixon: “Vietnam has been a profoundly sobering lesson in the limits of U.S. power.”

On the recordOctober 18, 1968
Vietnam has been a profoundly sobering lesson in the limits of U.S. power.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

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Remarks on the CBS Radio Network: 'To Keep the Peace'

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