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NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “It is a competition in a free society of conflicting philosophies, and when the day comes when one side continues to…”

On the recordJune 19, 1996
It is a competition in a free society of conflicting philosophies, and when the day comes when one side continues to deliberately distort the truth, then, as in the eloquent words of Robert J. Samuelson last summer in the Washington Post, quoting now: The purpose is not to debate, it is to destroy. That has no place in the free society. If we cannot honestly debate factual material along philosophical lines and have honest disagreements, then I fear for the very foundations of our republic. When someone will go around the country saying here it is, here is the secret list of parks the Republicans are closing, when there are no secret lists and there are no plans to close the crown jewels of this country, it is inexcusable, and there should be an accounting to the----
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NAN A. S. HAYWORTH
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Addressing the importance of honest debate and truth in political discourse.

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