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Robert C. Byrd: “Are we going to continue to permit an unpredictable and undependable Nasser to carry out his ambitious schemes to become…”

On the recordMay 14, 1958
Are we going to continue to permit an unpredictable and undependable Nasser to carry out his ambitious schemes to become lord over the waterways and the vital oilfields of the Middle East?
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Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
Source
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May 14, 1958

Editor's note · Context

Questioning the administration's policy in the Middle East.

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