Richard Nixon actually said...

We take that medicine because we need it, not because we like it; as our economy successfully combats unemployment, we will stop taking the medicine well before we become addicted to it.

Context

Annual Budget Message to the Congress, Fiscal Year 1973.

01/23/1972

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