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Robert C. Byrd: “National policy to be effective must have its origin and sustenance in public support. Any attempt to flout this…”

On the recordMarch 25, 1958
National policy to be effective must have its origin and sustenance in public support. Any attempt to flout this principle is foredoomed to failure. If our foreign policy is to succeed, the American people must not be kept in the dark.
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Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
Source
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Mar 25, 1958

Editor's note · Context

Speaking on diplomacy and a proposed summit conference with the Soviet Union.

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