Richard Nixon actually said...

I am sure that some of you would naturally conclude, what an enormous responsibility and how difficult it must be to sit in that Oval Office and attempt to make the decision that is going to affect the lives of 200 million Americans for perhaps a generation, and also of billions of people on this earth, both in the free world and Communist world.

Context

Remarks to Members of the National Institute of Municipal Law Officers.

04/07/1970

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