Richard Nixon

I think all of us would like to have Neil Armstrong say a word on behalf of his colleagues and their wives.

Good morning. Good morning, Herb. How are you?

Each of the Governors, as candidates, pledged that they were going to work with the Federal administration on the programs for their States.

We can never be on schedule until we solve the problems

I think we have moved in all areas.

I think those listening here and on television and radio would be interested to know what the plans are for the rest of the day.

I am rather happy we won because their opponents both made me the issue.

We cannot do it until we get this legislation passed.

The government should respond to the desires of the people, not the other way around.

I am confident that the National Program for Voluntary Action will be a significant and helpful instrument for enabling many more individual Americans to make their needed contributions toward solving the pressing problems of their…

And so tonight—to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans—I ask for your support.

Let us all understand that the question before us is not whether some Americans are for peace and some Americans are against peace.

I have chosen this second course.

This is a statement of policy, which as Commander in Chief of our Armed Forces, I am making in meeting my responsibility for the protection of American fighting men wherever they may be.

The great question is: How can we win America's peace?

Only Americans can do that.

As I have said repeatedly, there is nothing to be gained by waiting.

I had to think of the effect of my decision on the next generation and on the future of peace and freedom in America and in the world.

I wanted to take this opportunity to reaffirm in all solemnity my desire to work for a just peace.

Because let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States.

Let historians not record that when America was the most powerful nation in the world we passed on the other side of the road and allowed the last hopes for peace and freedom of millions of people to be suffocated by the forces of…

No progress whatever has been made except agreement on the shape of the bargaining table.

The American people cannot and should not be asked to support a policy which involves the overriding issues of war and peace unless they know the truth about that policy.

I deeply believe that the war in Vietnam has gone on too long and delay in bringing it to an end can benefit no one--least of all the people of Vietnam.

It is not the easy way.