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Richard Nixon: These agreements, important as they are, cannot be a cause for complacency.

On the recordNovember 20, 1972
These agreements, important as they are, cannot be a cause for complacency.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Letter to Ambassador Gerard C. Smith on the Opening of the Second Round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks in Geneva.

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