Richard Nixon actually said...

Every citizen should learn how to report fires, how to use basic extinguishing agents and firefighting techniques, and how to react when major fires strike his place of work or his residence.

Context

Proclamation 4059—Fire Prevention Week, 1971

06/06/1971

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