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Richard Nixon: “I hope that when I finish my term in office that we could look back, as far as this Department is concerned, and say…”

On the recordFebruary 5, 1969
I hope that when I finish my term in office that we could look back, as far as this Department is concerned, and say that we looked at the problems in the beginning, we examined them fairly in a nonpartisan way, we dealt with them.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Remarks to Employees at the Post Office Department.

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