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Richard Nixon: My friends, I simply want to say this: Whoever is President of the United States, whether it is the man standing before…

On the recordMarch 14, 1969
My friends, I simply want to say this: Whoever is President of the United States, whether it is the man standing before you today, or whether it is his successor, let us be sure that whenever our President sits at a conference table with any other nation that the United States is never a second-rate military power.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

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Remarks at the American Legion's 50th Anniversary Dinner.

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