Box 16, Folder 8, Document 73

Box 16, Folder 8, Document 73

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: And what is decency?—the right to live and die without fear; the right to. =~ =~ ped
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He has spit in the face of every child, in the faces of the men and women who «@ ~

follow God, be they Jew, Protestant or Catholic. |

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