Richard Nixon actually said...

Let's make sure that we have by that time--and that is only 7 years away--that we have total independence, so that America hasn't to depend on any other nation in the world for the energy we need for our jobs and the rest.

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Remarks on Arrival in Memphis, Tennessee.

11/19/1973

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