Richard M. Nixon Quotes About Vietnam War
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I want to be sure...that nothing is done on these veterans. Is that understood?...Is the word out? That they are not to touch em, they are not to do a thing?...Get a hold of the district police; they're not to touch them, they're to do nothing: Just let em raise Hell.
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When the strongest nation in the world can be tied up for years in a war with no end in sight, when the richest nation in the world can't manage its own economy, when the nation with the greatest tradition of the rule of law is plagued by unprecedented lawlessness, and when the President of the United States cannot travel abroad or to any major city at home without fear of a hostile demonstration - then it's time for new leadership for the United States of America.
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If in order to avoid further Communist expansion in Asia and particularly in Indo-China, if in order to avoid it we must take the risk by putting American boys in, I believe that the executive branch of the government has to take the politically unpopular position of facing up to it and doing it, and I personally would support such a decision.
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I'm not going to be the first American president to lose a war.
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If, when the chips are down, the worlds most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of totalitarianism and anarchy will threaten free nations and free institutions throughout the world.
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No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
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You have my assurance that we will respond with full force should the settlement be violated by North Vietnam.
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The events that followed our withdrawal from Vietnam, including the plight of the boat people and the more than 1 million slaughtered by the new communist rulers of Cambodia, showed that media critics who said we were on the wrong side were mistaken.
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Yes, I wish I'd done it sooner.
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Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.
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Richard M. Nixon
- Born: January 9, 1913
- Died: April 22, 1994
- Occupation: 37th U.S. President
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