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Richard Nixon: “It was more difficult to move six secretaries from the Senate Office Building to the Capitol than it was to move a whole…”

On the recordMay 6, 1969
It was more difficult to move six secretaries from the Senate Office Building to the Capitol than it was to move a whole division of Marines across the Pacific.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Swearing In of Lt. Gen. Robert E. Cushman, Jr., as Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency.

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