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I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term President at the cost of seeing America become a second-race power and to see this Nation accept the first defeat in its proud 190-year history.

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Richard M. Nixon
Age: 81 †
Born: 1913
Born: January 9
Died: 1994
Died: April 22
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