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Richard Nixon: “So nothing has been done, and emergency has followed emergency, at incalculable cost to millions of innocent bystanders…”

On the recordFebruary 2, 1971
So nothing has been done, and emergency has followed emergency, at incalculable cost to millions of innocent bystanders and to the nation itself.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

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Special Message to the Congress on National Emergency Labor Disputes in the Transportation Industry.

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