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Fleet Admiral Chester W Nimitz, USN
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Also in this series:
- Kennedy: Society grows or withers according to the power of its ideas (1961)
- Eisenhower: Informed citizens are the guardian & spirit of democracy (1960)
Fleet Admiral Chester W Nimitz, USN
“The bulwarks of our liberty are men and women who read and think.”
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Ichabod, for the Glory Has Departed — by Anthony West. A brief discussion of the shocking decay of the English language. – Harper’s Bazaar, August