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Richard Nixon: Today, whether it is halfway around the world to the People's Republic of China in Peking, or a third of the way around…

On the recordNovember 17, 1973
Today, whether it is halfway around the world to the People's Republic of China in Peking, or a third of the way around the world to the Kremlin in Moscow, or wherever we go, we must realize that there cannot be real peace in the world unless there is developed a structure of peace which covers not only the small nations but particularly the great powers that have the key to peace or to war in their hands.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

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Speech at Macon, Georgia

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