Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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He might well have been American but this is still one of the most inspiring and pertinent speeches ever given by a politician, and is still very relevant today.
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Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Richard M Nixon an early greeter and hand-shaker if not heedful of much that was said.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i often wonder how good a president he would have been in the long term.
a lot of his ideas were a bit too liberal for an american public, would have resulted in increased taxation, always a no go in the states.
Ross Miller
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Sadly not really - yes he was slightly less to the right than many contemporary US politicians, but dig into his foreign policy and you will see he was very much a business as usual type of guy
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