Richard Nixon actually said...

Given the system of 'checks and balances' built into our government, it would be reasonable to predict that in such a situation the institutions of the Presidency and the Congress would thwart one another, and that stalemate would ensue.

Context

Special Message to the Congress on the Administration's Legislative Program.

09/10/1970

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