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Together they [President Nixon and Secretary Kissinger] pursued ends that frequently had a tenuous link with reality, using means that were not merely disproportionate but counterproductive and untrue to those values they were meant to defend. In fact neither man demonstrated much faith in those values.

William Shawcross

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William Shawcross
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: May 28
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William Hartley Hume Shawcross
Hon. William Hartley Hume Shawcross
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