"In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism."
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Speech written by Safire for Spiro Agnew (11 September 1970).
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William Safire
William Lewis Safire (17 December 1929 – 27 September 2009) was an American author, columnist, journalist, presidential speechwriter, and language expert.
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