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Richard Nixon: What we are really trying to do there, Miss Lewine, and this has been done under my direction, is to break a filibuster.

On the recordMarch 23, 1972
What we are really trying to do there, Miss Lewine, and this has been done under my direction, is to break a filibuster.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

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