Richard Nixon actually said...

We maintain that [applause]---And we must maintain that force not because we want war, but because in the truest sense of the word in peacetime the Armed Forces of the United States all over this world are truly peace forces.

Context

Remarks on Receiving the American Legion's Distinguished Service Medal for 1969.

02/15/1971

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