The solid, middle-class values of hard work, responsibility, family, community, and faith my father talked about tirelessly from Iowa to New York, he lived at home. The hopes he had for his family and for me, he had for all Americans. I think Americans understood this.

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This quote speaks to the connection between the values preached by the speaker's father and the American society as a whole. The speaker asserts that their father consistently discussed important values such as hard work, responsibility, family, community, and faith, and embodied these principles in his own life. They go on to express the belief that their father's hopes for their family and the broader American population were the same, suggesting a shared understanding between Americans and the values advocated by their father.

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