Tag: Richard Milhous Nixon

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

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The student who invades an administration building, roughs up a dean, rifles the files and issues ‘non-negotiable demands’ may have some of his demands met by a permissive university administration. But the greater his ‘victory’ the more he will have undermined the security of his own rights.

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There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I’m not like that … I never shoot blanks.

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There is a time to be timid. There is a time to be conciliatory. There is a time, even, to fly and there is a time to fight. And I’m going to fight like hell. (On Congressional moves toward impeachment)

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There will be no whitewash in the White House. (On Watergate investigation)

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This is a burden I shall bear for every day of the life that is left to me.

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This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation. (Saluting crew of the Apollo 11)

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Tonight-to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans-I ask for your support. (On his Vietnam War policy)

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Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.

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Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

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