Richard Nixon actually said...
The man we honor tonight, and I say this in the company of this group, is really, in his whole political career and as now the head of government in his country, a man who has the courage and the farsightedness and the vision to make gutsy decisions, whether it is in the economic field or whether it is in the field of foreign policy.
Context
Toasts of the President and Prime Minister Heath of the United Kingdom
01/31/1973