Although every instinct motivates me to provide the American people with complete protection against a major nuclear attack, it is not now within our power to do so.
It will be my policy as President to issue a warning only once, and I will not repeat it now.
The gravest responsibility which I bear as President of the United States is for the security of the Nation.
I have chosen the third option.
The program is not provocative.
In other words, our program provides an incentive for a responsible Soviet weapons policy and for the avoidance of spira...
As to whether or not a different response would either discourage those talks or might have the effect of even encouragi...
I have not stepped up the war in Vietnam.
Debates in the field of national defense are often spirited, and the votes are often close.
This is a very close decision on our part, one that I not only discussed with Secretary Laird yesterday, but that we wil...
I do not plan a State of the Union Address in the traditional manner.