Richard Nixon actually said...

It has had great threats from within and from without, but it has survived because of one man--the man we honor tonight, a man who has been honored at this table before at dinners that President Eisenhower gave, and President Johnson, and in my first term in 1969, right here at this table.

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Toasts of the President and King Hussein of Jordan

02/05/1973

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