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Nov 28, 2008 14:52

but this speech always makes me proud.

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As a background, the speech was made by our then Primeminister David Lange, at Oxford, during a debate on the morality of nuclear weapons/power. He argued that they weren't and famously told his opponant that he could "smell the uranium on [his] breath".

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jexia November 28 2008, 05:25:07 UTC
That made me tear up. I'd heard the uranium line before, but not the whole thing.

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ansis November 28 2008, 05:57:16 UTC
The original (the bit the clip above comes from starts about 3:00 in



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jexia November 28 2008, 07:59:44 UTC
Thanks for that!

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