Richard Nixon actually said...

When the chips were down a majority of the Congress voted to increase wages sharply without increasing productivity--in plain words, to speed up the rise in costs and prices.

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Statement on Signing Bill Providing for a Temporary Prohibition of Strikes or Lockouts in the Railway Labor-Management...

12/09/1970

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