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• In my seven years as Secretary, we came within a hair's breadth of war with the Soviet Union on three different occasions!…
• It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.
• That's one of the major lessons: no president should ever take this nation to war without full public debate in the Congress…
• To this day we seem to act in the world as though we know what's right for everybody.
• One solitary God-centered, God-intoxicated man can do more to keep God's love alive and His presence felt in the world than a…
• We see what we want to believe.
• Poor planning or poor execution of plans is simply to let some force other than reason shape reality.
• It is true that at the time [1962] we had a strategic nuclear force of approximately five thousand warheads compared to the…

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