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Robert C. Byrd: “I call for a return to a basic principle upon which any civilized country must, in the final analysis, rest-the rule of…”

On the recordJune 6, 1968
I call for a return to a basic principle upon which any civilized country must, in the final analysis, rest-the rule of law.
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Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
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Jun 6, 1968

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Speaking after the shooting of Senator Robert Kennedy.

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