The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace

J. William Fulbright
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The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace - not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our own failures. ✨ Fulbright of Arkansas: The Public Positions of a Private Thinker. Book by J. William Fulbright, 1963.
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The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace - not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our own failures. ✨ Fulbright of Arkansas: The Public Positions of a Private Thinker. Book by J. William Fulbright, 1963.

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