The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

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The irony here is the man who has done the most to keep these papers from becoming available, Dick Nixon, is the man who's going to benefit the most from them because people are going to start seeing the problems from his point of view.

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We voted 50-50 for the next president, ... One of the things that was notable was how much the American people today yearn for a sense of national unity and that brought it about. So there are a lot of things that happened after 12/7/41 that are happening now and will continue to happen, the most important of which is we became one people.

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Nearly every artifact has a story connected to it, whether it be a hole in a helmet or a belt that a medic carried around with him as he treated the wounded on the beach.

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The copied words they discovered amounted to about 10 pages out of a total work of some 15,000 pages in print, ... The investigative reporters found them by using my footnotes.

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During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.

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You cannot kill that city, ... I bet there's people saying, I've got to go back.' .

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You can take the day off.

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A great teacher of writing.

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As a people, we have wrestled with Vietnam's legacy for many years, as was and is our duty. Now we want to remind ourselves of what we have done right. Our involvement in World War II was us doing right.

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