Richard Nixon actually said...

We would do so only if we had to do so in order to protect American fliers who otherwise would be hit down by the SAM's.

The President's News Conference

07/26/1972

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I am very happy to welcome you all to the White House this morning for a very special occasion, one that comes only once a year.

I only hope that those of us--and there are many of us here from the Senate, from the House, from the Congress-that those of us in the field...

We are the first nation in the world in science.

The right kind of education--that is really what it is all about.