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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Oct 22, 1968

In order to control wages and prices, it would be necessary to embark on a road from which it is very hard to escape without major damage to the freedom of all.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Oct 20, 1968

As more disadvantaged Americans are being trained for jobs, the question on many a workingman's mind is this: 'Is that my job he's being trained to take over?'

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Oct 20, 1968

The family on a fixed income today was sold out by an administration that did not have the courage to stop inflation.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Oct 20, 1968

Labor is a movement, a progressive force, and now more than ever we need that movement and that progress.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Oct 20, 1968

In the next Administration hard bargaining will be the order of the day; the Federal government will step in only when the failure of that process endangers the health or safety of our nation.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Oct 20, 1968

In terms of real income the average workingman has two dollars less in his envelope now than he did in the first year of this administration.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Oct 20, 1968

Tonight, I would like to discuss with you the future of the workingman in America.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Oct 20, 1968

The old leadership is thinking of treating the symptoms of inflation by bringing to bear the most harmful tool in the economist's kit: Wage and Price Controls.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Oct 18, 1968

But if the new generation is no longer prisoner of the old isms, neither is it sold on the American idea.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Oct 18, 1968

Peace today requires strength of will, strength of arms, and strength of purpose.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Oct 18, 1968

Peace is everybody's business, and the pursuit of peace is everybody's responsibility.

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