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Richard Nixon: “I ask the Senate's advice and consent to ratification of the Treaty, and an expression of support from both Houses of…”

On the recordJune 12, 1972
I ask the Senate's advice and consent to ratification of the Treaty, and an expression of support from both Houses of the Congress for the Interim Agreement on Strategic Offensive Arms.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

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Message to the Senate Transmitting the Antiballistic Missile Treaty and the Interim Agreement on Strategic Offensive Arms.

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