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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Sep 30, 1960

Whenever the President of the United States is doing the right thing, whenever he is defending this country, he should not apologize or express regrets to Khrushchev or anybody else in the world.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Sep 30, 1960

Consider my qualifications; consider my program; consider my colleague's qualifications, and his program; consider our opponents', and then decide which of the two teams will be best for America

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Sep 30, 1960

Certainly, he cannot believe that in the Congo the United States should have followed Khrushchev's example and attempted to muscle its way in and shatter forever the hopes of these people for independence.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Sep 30, 1960

It's time that the American people, critics and proponents alike, should quit blaming ourselves for what the Communists do abroad and what our friends may be opposed to

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Sep 30, 1960

I'm tired of reading in the paper of what Mr. Khrushchev is doing. I'm tired of reading in the paper of what Mr. Castro is doing. I want to read in the paper what President Eisenhower is doing

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Sep 30, 1960

The leadership that America selects this November will determine the course of the future for America.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Sep 30, 1960

Because economically we need the talents of these people, and we must see that they have equality of opportunity, too

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Sep 30, 1960

All the criticism in the world can't take away the truth that under President Eisenhower's leadership we got this country out of one war, we've kept it out of others, and we do have peace without surrender today

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Sep 30, 1960

America can't afford not to discover and develop one of the great scientists of our time

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Sep 30, 1960

Sooner or later, he must agree that we can be proud that we acted in support of the United Nations to save the independence of the Congo.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Sep 30, 1960

I think we need economic policies that will stimulate the creative energies of a hundred and eighty million people, that will increase employment, that we need Government policies, for example, which will provide better guarantees and…

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Sep 30, 1960

We need military strength. We need America to move ahead economically; but, above everything else we need to be sure that the moral and spiritual fiber of this country is strong

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Sep 30, 1960

But he also has a responsibility when he criticizes to be right about what he says.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Sep 30, 1960

I say that the American people applaud President Eisenhower for his dignity, and they contrast it with the crudeness of Mr. Khrushchev as he has exemplified it at the United Nations.

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