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On the recordSeptember 14, 1960
We must have firmness and nonbelligerence and we must have diplomacy in which the President does not answer insult with insult, but maintains the dignity of the Office of the President of the United States.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

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Speech by Vice President Richard M. Nixon to Luncheon at Annual Convention of National Federation of Republican Women,...

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