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Richard Nixon: As long as the North Vietnamese have any Americans as prisoners of war, there will be Americans in South Vietnam and…

On the recordFebruary 16, 1971
As long as the North Vietnamese have any Americans as prisoners of war, there will be Americans in South Vietnam and enough Americans to give them an incentive to release the prisoners.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

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