I let the American people down.... -Richard M. Nixon

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I let the American people down.

Richard M. Nixon , President
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Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriot...
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now....
The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting....
In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloo...
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose....
We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselv...
If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories....
I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports....
I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business....
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion....

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