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Richard Nixon: “Don't look at it simply in terms of a great group of selfish people, money grubbing, not wanting to help other people.”

On the recordDecember 14, 1970
Don't look at it simply in terms of a great group of selfish people, money grubbing, not wanting to help other people.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at a Ceremony Marking Attainment of a Trillion Dollar Gross National Product.

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