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Richard Nixon: “When the chips were down and when the question was respect for the United States, when the question was strength of the…”

On the recordApril 15, 1973
When the chips were down and when the question was respect for the United States, when the question was strength of the United States, that these men, to a man, stood for not party, but what was best for America.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

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Remarks at the National Conference of Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO

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