The President's News Conference
01/11/1978
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
I hope that this book, which is -- has a provocative title, but I don't consider provocative to be a bad word.
Base on what I just said, which I can't retract.
The aircraft carrying the 52 American hostages had cleared Iranian airspace on the first -- first leg of a journey home....
I don't agree with that at all.