Richard Nixon actually said...

I urge the press, radio, television and all other information media to cooperate in this observance.

Every person in this country has an immense debt to him for his statesmanship and patriotism.

It is not enough to express our gratitude to the heroic dead by thought and prayer and with special reverence on Memorial Day.

We honor them most by remembering what it was they died for—not for glory, not for conquest, but for those concepts that bind a people toget...