Richard Nixon actually said...

They called it then 'The Spirit of '76' and in just a few years--and all of you will be here, and we hope some of us are too-in 1976, we are going to celebrate the 200th anniversary of America.

Context

Remarks at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Congressional Banquet.

03/09/1970

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