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Henry A. Kissinger
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Henceforth the adequacy of any military establishment will be tested by its ability to preserve the peace.
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It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
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The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
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