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Richard Nixon: “He also had a capacity to express himself perhaps not so well in speeches--and maybe two speeches in 4 years is enough…”

On the recordFebruary 25, 1971
He also had a capacity to express himself perhaps not so well in speeches--and maybe two speeches in 4 years is enough for any President, may I say--but an extraordinary capacity to express himself sometimes in bits of poetry.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

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Remarks on Accepting the Adams Portraits for the White House Collection.

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