Richard Nixon actually said...

This State is the State we have selected for one of our key meetings that we've been having around the country in which, rather than having the States and the counties and the cities come to Washington, we bring Washington and the White House to the people right here where it belongs.

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Remarks on Arrival at Denver, Colorado

08/02/1970

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