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Even when you sign a treaty like I think [Richard] Nixon did, the anti-ballistic missile treaty, George W. Bush reneged on it. He got out of. So any treaty can be withdrawn from.

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Jerry Brown
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: April 7
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