Accountability

I will not accept its failure to act.

I have done everything that I possibly can to provide the evidence that would have existed had we found the tapes.

I believe in keeping the promises I make, and making only those promises I am confident I can keep.

The sole interest to which each board member must be beholden is the public interest.

As long as I am here, I will go over and shake off the dust myself to find out what was said.

We would like to point out that as a member of the Cabinet we would want you to report to the Cabinet, too, on your trips abroad.

In these times, one cannot often enough emphasize the need for individual responsibility and individual accountability.

Until he does, the men there are going to give a good account of themselves.

If we are to ever be worthy of the trust and of the confidence of other peoples, we shall have to face up to our own lives and our own problems.

I have said nothing or done nothing to contribute to that cooling.

I promise you that we are not going to allow them to go on unchecked.

I don't want to be charged with barring you from asking anything you want to.

I will review exactly what has happened.

A President who refuses to go out among the people, who refuses to be judged by the people, who is unwilling to lay his case before the people, can never be President of all the people.

Your Commission, I know, has been guided throughout by a determination to find and to tell the whole truth of these terrible events.

My judgment is that the decision reached by Secretary McNamara was the right one, sound one, and any fair and objective hearing will bring that out.

The administration is afraid to tell the people the truth about their situation.

It is important that the public interest be uppermost at all times, and regulation is essential to accomplish that purpose.