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Richard Nixon: “We honor them most by remembering what it was they died for—not for glory, not for conquest, but for those concepts that…”

On the recordMay 19, 1970
We honor them most by remembering what it was they died for—not for glory, not for conquest, but for those concepts that bind a people together in nationhood—and brotherhood.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

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Proclamation 3985—Prayer for Peace, Memorial Day, 1970

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