Richard Nixon

The answer to that is very simply that the Secretary of State is always the chief foreign policy adviser and the chief foreign policy spokesman of the Administration.

We have kept every promise that we have made.

We are following that very closely, and it is not unusually alarming.

We will have to maintain a residual force in South Vietnam.

As far as our own goal is concerned, our proposal is clear, and we ask the enemy to consider it: a mutual withdrawal of forces, our forces and theirs.

No. As a matter of fact what has already been accomplished in Laos at this time has insured even more the plan for withdrawal of American troops.

It is a one-package situation.

We will do everything that we can to urge the parties to talk.

I fervently hope that all Americans will continue to support efforts to obtain the release of all our prisoners as soon as possible, as I proposed on October 7, 1970.

You serve in the peace forces of the world.

But I think humility is good for any individual.

It is one of those things you say, 'I wouldn't have missed it, but I wouldn't want to do it again.'

I understand those arguments, and I understand the sentiments behind them.

Our power has always been used for building the peace, never for breaking it--for defending freedom, never for destroying it.

You know, you apply for something, and they give you something else.

For this reason we have accepted the necessity of war.

I am very proud of the fact that he ended up in the top 10 percent of his class.

I do not believe that peace will suddenly descend upon us like the answer to a prayer.

It is for us now to seize that opportunity, to win the peace.

The pursuit of peace is the opportunity which lies before you, and the preservation of peace will be the special obligation of your generation.

I tell you, they will not be lost.

We have been, we continue to be, willing to pay the price for peace.

Rather, we have to build peace, you and I together.

I have always marveled at the fact that people who are in the military service, like General Eisenhower, always have such erect posture.

So today we will look to the possibilities of the future with a careful regard for the realities of the present and the lessons of the past.