Richard Nixon

Our superiority in weapons was unquestioned.

It is clear from what I have reported tonight that America urgently needs new leadership for tomorrow.

It takes strength, careful planning, holding to principle — yes, and determination and courage as well — to keep American boys out of war.

The Vietnam war is a tragic example.

This is a grave menace to the United States, as well as a body blow to our continuing efforts toward effective arms control.

The Eisenhower position was that prudent firmness under-girds peace, but timidity, impulsiveness, and indecision lead toward war.

Such were the dreams that crimped our national defense program.

I charge the opposition with creating a security gap for America.

In recent years Americans have often believed the promises and exchanged their own wealth and freedom for bureaucratic solutions to their problems.

In order to control wages and prices, it would be necessary to embark on a road from which it is very hard to escape without major damage to the freedom of all.

It is time now to reopen the American way—return to the open road, where free men master change rather than passively await it.

Walt Whitman once called our history an open road.

The average American is losing money.

In enlarging Washington we diminish America.

If I am elected I pledge that I will adopt this approach redressing the present imbalances without increasing unemployment or controls.

The present Administration has raised the Federal government's share of the average worker's paycheck not only by the recent ten percent surcharge, but also by another estimated 11 percent through the hidden tax of inflation.

The continuing process of dollar debauchery is today robbing our citizens of their wealth and aggrandizing the power of Washington.

In fact the U.S. has not had a balanced budget since the last full fiscal year of the Eisenhower Administration.

Economic growth is the answer to job security.

Labor is a movement, a progressive force, and now more than ever we need that movement and that progress.

Tonight, I would like to discuss with you the future of the workingman in America.

The new leadership we offer will provide the best job protection.

In the next Administration hard bargaining will be the order of the day; the Federal government will step in only when the failure of that process endangers the health or safety of our nation.

The family on a fixed income today was sold out by an administration that did not have the courage to stop inflation.

That's not prosperity — that's treadmill economics.