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Robert C. Byrd: “I have said before and I say again, and I hope to repeat it over and over, that what is morally wrong can never be…”

On the recordJuly 14, 1954
I have said before and I say again, and I hope to repeat it over and over, that what is morally wrong can never be politically right. Each and every grave of our honored war dead is a monumental protest against Red China's case for U. N. admission.
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Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
Source
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Jul 14, 1954

Editor's note · Context

Opposing admission of Communist China to the United Nations.

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