Richard Nixon actually said...

I make it clear that as far as that strength is concerned, it must come before all other considerations and it is the responsibility of the American people that we always maintain that strength we presently have.

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Speech by Vice President Richard M. Nixon to Luncheon at Annual Convention of National Federation of Republican Women,...

09/14/1960

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