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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Dec 13, 1971

I can only characterize the meetings by saying that, as was the previous case when I have met with the President, our discussions were not only candid and frank but, above all, they were constructive.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Dec 11, 1971

THE DEATH of General David Sarnoff is a great loss not only for America but for the world.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Dec 10, 1971

It is with the deepest regret that I accept your resignation, as you have requested, as Deputy Secretary of Defense, effective December 13, 1971.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Dec 6, 1971

There has been more progress than in any comparable time in the whole history of that country.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Dec 5, 1971

Executive Order No. 11248 of October 10, 1965, as amended, is further amended as follows

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Dec 1, 1971

He needs to be not only articulate, as he is, as he has just demonstrated, and tenacious, as he obviously will be, but he also has to be a magician.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Dec 1, 1971

The volumes, so very many of them, when I have seen them down there, just gathered dust.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Dec 1, 1971

You said you wanted an aggressive, articulate spokesman for agriculture in the White House, and Mr. President, you have got him.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Dec 1, 1971

As a matter of fact, I think he has something that he is going to be saying tomorrow on some subjects, and he will be listened to.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Nov 30, 1971

I want to tell you why I think you should believe it, believe it very, very deeply today, not with any Pollyannaish statement in which we cover up those things that are wrong about our country and wrong about this world.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Nov 26, 1971

Along with this we have proposed a new organizational arrangement that will vastly improve the effectiveness of the cancer abatement effort.

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