“a stunning failure of leadership”
“any external aggressor will clash with an impregnable resistance.”
“This budget is the epitome of 'America Last.'”
“We are unstoppable.”
“Everything will get better.”
“I vowed not to let Israel or America’s friends in the Persian Gulf 'get hurt or fail in any way, shape, or form.'”

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On the recordApril 25, 1967
The country will need the help of scientists, including a large and strong contingent of physicists, if we are ever to be able to deal effectively with the central problems of the present and the future, to deal with the problems of peace in the world, and the welfare of three-quarters of the population of the earth who tonight live on the narrow edge of existence.
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Eddie Johnson
Democratic · Texas
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Remarks to Members of the American Physical Society.

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