Richard Nixon actually said...

It is terribly shortsighted, because when we see it, we find that if we close our markets in order to save jobs here, we are going to lose jobs for those products that otherwise would be sold abroad.

Context

Remarks at the Conclusion of a Conference on Export Expansion

10/10/1973

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