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By Martin Van Buren
We endeavor to conduct our intercourse with openness and sincerity, promptly avowing our objects and seeking to establish that mutual frankness which is as beneficial in the dealings of nations as of men.
- Source
- Inaugural Address, March 4, 1837
- Read at
- The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara
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From Van Buren's inaugural address on March 4, 1837, on how the United States should deal with other nations.