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On May 4, 1970, four white students participating in a student antiwar demonstration at Kent State University in Ohio were shot and killed by members of the National Guard.
“the thirty-eighth parallel, selected by the Americans and the Russians back in 1945 as the dividing line between the two Koreas, as a border at all.”
― The Coldest Winter
― The Coldest Winter
“So many books, so little time.”
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“All disarmament plans had been buried.”
― Russia at War, 1941–1945: A History
― Russia at War, 1941–1945: A History
“the rights of free speech and free press do not carry with them the right to advocate the destruction of the very government which protects the freedom of an individual to express his views.”
― Nixonland: America's Second Civil War and the Divisive Legacy of Richard Nixon 1965-72
― Nixonland: America's Second Civil War and the Divisive Legacy of Richard Nixon 1965-72
“To give advice to a tyrant was to suggest his fallibility and offer oneself as a scapegoat should things go wrong.”
― Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
― Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
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