Richard Nixon actually said...

The way to build a better country is to discover again the grace and the beauty of this heartland of America so that people, instead of moving out, will move back here and develop it again.

Context

Remarks at the Dedication of the Rathbun Dam Near Centerville, Iowa.

07/30/1971

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