"Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out."
-Richard M. Nixon
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"Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.“
-Richard M. Nixon
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"If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together."
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"No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now."
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"The Cold War isn't thawing it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting."
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"In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars."
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"I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business."
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