Nixon
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1:16:05
When the strongest nation
in the world can be tied down...

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...for four years
in a war in Vietnam...

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...with no end in sight;
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...when the richest nation in the world
can't manage its own economy;

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...when the nation with the greatest
tradition of the rule of law...

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...is plagued by
unprecedented lawlessness;

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...when a nation that has been known for
a century for equality of opportunity...

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...is torn by unprecedented
racial violence...

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...when the president of the United States
cannot travel abroad...

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...or to any major city
at home...

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...without fear
of a hostile demonstration...

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...then it is time for new leadership
for the United States of America.

1:16:46
As we look at America, we see cities
enveloped in smoke and flame...

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...millions of Americans
crying out in anguish...

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"Did we come all the way
for this?

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Did American boys die in Normandy
and Valley Forge for this?"

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I pledge to you
That the current wave of violence...

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...will not be the wave
of the future.

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Let us begin by committing ourselves...
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...to the truth...to find the truth,
to speak the truth...

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...and to live the truth.
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A new voice is being heard
across America today.

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It is not the voice
of the protesters or the shouters.

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It is the quiet voice of the majority
of Americans who've been forgotten...

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...the non-shouters,
the, uh, non-demonstrators.

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They're the good people. They work hard
and they save and they pay their taxes.

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Now, who are they?
Let me tell you who they are.

1:17:38
They're in this audience
by the thousands.

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They're the white Americans
and black Americans...

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Mexican and Italian Americans.
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They're the great
silent majority...

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...and they have
become angry, finally.

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Angry, not with hate,
But angry, my friends...

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...because they love America...
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...and they don't like what's happened
to America these last four years.

1:17:56
Let us understand.
1:17:58
North Vietnam cannot defeat
or humiliate the United States.


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