America quotes by Richard Milhouse Nixon

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"My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future." (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford)"
"I let the American people down."
"No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now."
"I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first ... Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow."
"Tonight-to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans-I ask for your support." (On his Vietnam War policy)"
"The 1976 Bicentennial is not going to be invented in Washington, printed in triplicate by the Government Printing Office [and] mailed to you by the United States Postal Service."
"If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished." (Proposal to reform welfare programs)"
"As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to ... the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible." (On the Vietnam War)"