Address to the Nation on Economic Policy and Productivity
06/16/1970
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My friends, the President was right; Senator Kennedy was wrong, in 1955, and the proof of it is we've kept the peace without surrender.
What we want is a better life for our children than we have for ourselves.
No criticism of this Nation, as I told the delegates, can be permitted to obscure the fact that America is the strongest power in the world ...
I'm here to stand up for West Virginia and not to run her down.