“The tide of war dose not recede just be cause we wish it to.”

Remarks to AJC Global Forum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHcr2baBftE&t=185s (12 May 2014) <br class="br">2010s, 2014

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politician from the United States 1936–2018

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