Richard Nixon actually said...

In launching the Marshall Plan, he began the most farsighted and most generous act of international rebuilding ever undertaken.

Confronted during his Presidency with a momentous series of challenges, his strength and spirit proved equal to them all.

Like all political leaders, he had his friends and his opponents.

He did what had to be done, when it had to be done, and because he did the world today is a better and safer place--and generations to come ...