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Robert C. Byrd: “Public statements by public officials, if intemperate, may very well reduce the options of the President and make his…”

On the recordJanuary 25, 1968
Public statements by public officials, if intemperate, may very well reduce the options of the President and make his already onerous burden an even greater one.
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Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
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Jan 25, 1968

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Discussing the response to the North Korean seizure.

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