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Speaker 1: Elizabeth Cheney is the former Republican Member of Congress from

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Speaker 1: the state of Wyoming who distinguished herself during her service

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Speaker 1: with courage, honesty, and an absolute dedication to the preservation

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Speaker 1: of the Constitution of the United States. Because she stood

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Speaker 1: against the tide, because she said no in a sea

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Speaker 1: of cowardice. Congresswoman Cheney was awarded at the Kennedy Library

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Speaker 1: the Profiles and Courage Award. She was awarded the Profiles

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Speaker 1: and Courage Award because in a time of abdication, in

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Speaker 1: a time of faithlessness, in a time of cynicism and cowardice,

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Speaker 1: Liz Cheney said, I stand with America, not with Donald Trump,

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Speaker 1: and not with the gang that is trying for their

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Speaker 1: own sake, for their own power, for their own benefit,

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Speaker 1: attempting to take as much as they can get. What

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Speaker 1: Liz Cheney understood maybe in part because she is the

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Speaker 1: daughter of a man who conceded in an election to

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Speaker 1: President Jimmy Carter from President Ford, who had lost his

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Speaker 1: voice in the final days of the campaign. Because maybe

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Speaker 1: she had been with her father when he received word

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Speaker 1: that Senator Kerry had conceded an election, or that Vice

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Speaker 1: President Gore had conceded one of the closest elections in

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Speaker 1: American history. She understood that the greatest invention in American

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Speaker 1: history was the peaceful transition of power. She understood that

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Speaker 1: the cornerstone, the keystone of American society and is that

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Speaker 1: peaceful transition of power. Liz Cheney didn't just pass by

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Speaker 1: the painting in the Capitol that showed George Washington surrendering

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Speaker 1: his commission back to the Congress, the man who could

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Speaker 1: be king, an emperor, a Napoleon, instead bowing, subordinating himself

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Speaker 1: to an idea that in America, it is the country,

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Speaker 1: it is the republic, It is our liberty that is supreme.

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Speaker 1: Washington's humility in that moment made possible the creation of

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Speaker 1: the United States, the birth of the Federal Republic that

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Speaker 1: came from the Constitution, which is endured for over two

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Speaker 1: hundred years and made America the oldest constitutional republic in

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Speaker 1: the world. Liz Cheney, because she held firm and fast,

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Speaker 1: was drummed out of Kevin McCarthy's Congress. Liz Cheney was

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Speaker 1: a truth teller, and there can be no room for

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Speaker 1: a truth teller in a sea of liars. The truth

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Speaker 1: teller makes the liar uncomfortable and shamed, and so Liz

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Speaker 1: Cheney couldn't stay. Liz Cheney had to go, replaced by

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Speaker 1: the most transparently cynical woman in the Congress. That would

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Speaker 1: have been a perfect pair for her, fellow New York

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Speaker 1: or George Santos, at least Stephanic, an equal fraud in

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Speaker 1: everything except the invention of the particulars of her resume,

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Speaker 1: like the children screaming in praise of hamas she went

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Speaker 1: to Harvard, No surprises there. Congresswoman Cheney has written a book,

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Speaker 1: and in that book she details the behind the scenes

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Speaker 1: private moments that took place as Donald Trump tried to

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Speaker 1: overthrow the Constitution of the United States. In order to

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Speaker 1: truly appreciate what these conversations must have been like, you

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Speaker 1: have to know Liz Cheney. Trust me when I tell

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Speaker 1: you this. They were extraordinary. Liz Cheney is an unflappable person,

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Speaker 1: and her looks can be priceless. And I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: imagine the look on her face when Kevin McCarthy looked

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Speaker 1: her in the eye and said Donald Trump was depressed.

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Speaker 1: He wasn't eating, he was so sad. In mar A Lago,

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Speaker 1: Stripped of power, disgraced the man who was president, who

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Speaker 1: attacked his own country, a man so brittle, so small,

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Speaker 1: that he refused to accept the judgment of the American people.

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Speaker 1: And so it was that he slinked back tomorrow Lago,

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Speaker 1: humiliated and disgraced. In fact, he lacked the basic dignity

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Speaker 1: to attend President Biden's inaugural. A low, shameful and despotic man,

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Speaker 1: the greatest scumbag America has ever produced. But that sad

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Speaker 1: man needed a hug and needed to be uplifted. So

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Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy went tomorrow a lago. And that's really where

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Speaker 1: you have to start to appreciate the legacy of Henry Kissinger. Us.

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Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy going to hug on Donald Trump in more

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Speaker 1: Alaco was not unprecedented. There was another person in American life,

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Speaker 1: though much smarter than Kevin McCarthy, much more live, and

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Speaker 1: much more celebrated by the media, who he so easily manipulated,

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Speaker 1: Henry Kissinger. Henry Kissinger found himself on his knees embracing

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Speaker 1: Richard Nixon on one of the last nights of his presidency.

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Speaker 1: Nixon had asked Henry Kissinger to pray with him and

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Speaker 1: so they got down on their knees together and they

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Speaker 1: held each other in front of the portraits of the presidents.

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Speaker 1: That was the price for Henry Kissinger of power as

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Speaker 1: he stood in the Oval Office and listened to Richard

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Speaker 1: Nixon's anti Semitic slurs. What Henry Kissinger did, above all

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Speaker 1: other things in his life was extend the war in

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Speaker 1: Vietnam and sentenced thousands and thousands and thousands of young

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Speaker 1: Americans to their deaths like pawns on a chessboard. Henry

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Speaker 1: Kissinger was a Jewish refugee whose family escaped the fate

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Speaker 1: his family was able to make it to America before

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Speaker 1: the crystal knock. Henry Kissinger would reach the heights of

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Speaker 1: political power. He was a deceitful and dishonest man, and

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Speaker 1: well known as such. He manipulated people, and he did

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Speaker 1: it like a maestro. And for that he rose and

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Speaker 1: rose and rose to the heights of political power. And

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Speaker 1: when he was done with the heights of political power,

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Speaker 1: and for fifty years he took the money from the

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Speaker 1: Arab despots, from the Chinese, from companies all over the world,

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Speaker 1: and so when it came to be after September eleventh,

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Speaker 1: when it was Henry Kissinger nominated by George W. Bush

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Speaker 1: to lead the commission understanding what happened on nine to eleven.

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Speaker 1: He didn't last very long because he refused to disclose

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Speaker 1: all of his contacts, all of the money he was making,

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Speaker 1: all of his conflicts of interest. What Henry Kissinger was

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Speaker 1: was a game player. He viewed the world as his

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Speaker 1: chess board, and he found himself in position to move

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Speaker 1: the pieces. Do you want to know what Henry Kissinger's

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Speaker 1: legacy is. Here's his legacy in Iran, and here's his

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Speaker 1: legacy at the southern border, the legacy of interference in

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Speaker 1: the affairs of South America, the chaos that had spawned

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Speaker 1: over two generations. Here's his legacy in Cambodia, where he

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Speaker 1: enlarged the war and never understood the deep implications of

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Speaker 1: what happened in Cambodia as a result. But Henry Kissinger

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Speaker 1: never looked at those Cambodian lives as equal to an

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Speaker 1: American life. They were pawns in the game, and the

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Speaker 1: genocide came. This was called real politic by Henry Kissinger

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Speaker 1: and his admirers. But Henry Kissinger, whose lifetime spanned the

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Speaker 1: first quarter of the twenty first century in three quarters

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Speaker 1: of the twentieth, never picked up on the absolute lesson

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Speaker 1: of the twentieth century. That lesson was delivered in a

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Speaker 1: valedictory speech in nineteen ninety nine by LVZL in the

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Speaker 1: White House, and the speech was a condemnation of indifference.

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Speaker 1: It was the capstone of the lessons of a century

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Speaker 1: that saw more than one hundred million people killed in wars,

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Speaker 1: and now a quarterway through the twenty first century, and

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Speaker 1: indifference to morality and indifference to decency has led us

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Speaker 1: to a place where we have forgotten the moral lessons

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Speaker 1: of the twentieth century. Henry Kissinger's life was devoted to

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Speaker 1: the concept that power was its own end and its

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Speaker 1: own absolute, like water in a glass, expirable. But that's

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Speaker 1: not true. Power should be used for the promotion of

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Speaker 1: humanity's decency and benefit and goodness. The United States is

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Speaker 1: a moral nation because it's founded on moral ideas. When

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Speaker 1: the United States falls short, it is not a reflection

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Speaker 1: on the morality of those ideas, but rather the immorality

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Speaker 1: or amorality of men who run the government men like

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Speaker 1: Henry Kissinger. There will be much written about Henry Kissinger's genius,

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Speaker 1: But when you think about his genius, think about the wall,

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Speaker 1: the black one carved with the names of fifty eight

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Speaker 1: thousand Americans who died in a war that the American

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Speaker 1: government knew could never be won from the very beginning.

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Speaker 1: Lyndon Johnson bears responsibility for that, and Robert McNamara bears

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Speaker 1: responsibility for that. Richard Nixon bears responsibility for that, and

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Speaker 1: Henry Kissinger bears responsibility for that. And it's not forgivable,

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Speaker 1: not even if you live to be one hundred years old,

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Speaker 1: because when you raise your hand and you take the oath,

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Speaker 1: your responsibility is to the nation. And there is no

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Speaker 1: higher higher responsibility than to the nation's parents and to

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Speaker 1: their children, who would put on the uniform because they

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Speaker 1: believe in the nation's leaders and go off to fight

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Speaker 1: in a foreign land, because they believe in the principles

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Speaker 1: that they are told are necessary to defend. Man who

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Speaker 1: asked such things of our young men from the factories

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Speaker 1: and the farms, who don't have the privileges of a

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Speaker 1: Harvard education, don't have the good fortune to be discovered

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Speaker 1: and to be seen for maybe they're brilliance. The dignity

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Speaker 1: of their lives was snuffed out in a far away

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Speaker 1: jungle because of the cynicism of middle aged men and

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Speaker 1: old men, men like Henry Kissinger. He spent a lifetime

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Speaker 1: being celebrated, being lionized, being toasted. Well, he made a

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Speaker 1: lot of money, he held a lot of power, and

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Speaker 1: he killed a lot of people. That's Henry Kissinger's legacy.

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Speaker 1: It's not one any Americans should be particularly proud of.

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Speaker 1: Being smart is not a virtue. Being decent is And

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Speaker 1: when you achieve great power in the United States of America,

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Speaker 1: you will be judged in the end. And now his

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Speaker 1: judgment has come, and his judgment, in history's eyes, deservedly

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Speaker 1: so will be most unkind