Richard Nixon actually said...

The reason I fought so hard to keep the SST project alive was that I believe deeply that America must remain in the vanguard of scientific and technological progress--the kind of progress your team represents, and to which you have been dedicated.

Context

Remarks by Telephone to Workers on the Supersonic Transport Program.

03/24/1971

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