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Richard Nixon: But we can begin that process which will, I trust, leave a world, when you come on the scene, come on the scene as…

On the recordJune 3, 1970
But we can begin that process which will, I trust, leave a world, when you come on the scene, come on the scene as active participants in your communities, your States and your Nation, whether in political life or in private life, that will leave a world in which we will not all have the same political systems, in which we will not all have affection for each other because it will never be that way---but a world in which we can have reasonable safety and a world in which there can be communication between all peoples in the world.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

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Remarks to the Presidential Scholars of 1970.

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