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Nixon's Second Inaugural Address
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On October 21, 1984, President Ronald Reagan and former Vice President Walter Mondale engage in their second nationally broadcast debate. When Henry Trewhitt of the Baltimore Sun asks the president about his advancing age, Reagan turns the question on its head by promising not to make an issue of his opponent’s youth and inexperience.
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In a speech delivered March 3, 1951, in Town Hall, New York, Sen. Margaret Chase Smith warns those in her party who are critical of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the likely presidential nominee, to tone down their rhetoric as a division grows in the GOP over the stationing of troops in post-World War II Germany.
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