If we are to have the kind of economy that we want, may I say also that we must recognize that America's progress economically in the past has been the result not of what government in Washington has done but it's been a result primarily of what individuals, 180 million free Americans, have been doing and doing because their Government has encouraged them and stimulated them to do it.
Richard Nixon: “If we are to have the kind of economy that we want, may I say also that we must recognize that America's progress…”
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Speech of Vice President Nixon, Television Appearance, WHO-TV, Des Moines, IA
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