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Richard Nixon: “We must rule out unilateral disarmament, because in the real world it wouldn't work.”

On the recordJune 3, 1969
We must rule out unilateral disarmament, because in the real world it wouldn't work.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Address at the Air Force Academy Commencement Exercises in Colorado Springs, Colorado

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