Carolina QuotesThe politician is...trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.
Edward R. Murrow Carolinian
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Address at London Guildhall (19 October 1959)
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- speech
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- 1959
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