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On the recordSeptember 3, 1973
I will just conclude by saying Mr. Colby, that I have often said to other directors--to Allen Dulles, whom, of course, you knew well, worked under, and of course, Mr. Helms, now the Ambassador--that wherever you can, when anything is going to happen, or does happen, that the CIA could tell me before I read it in the papers.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

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Remarks at the Swearing In of William E. Colby as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

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