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1913–1994 United States
Richard Milhous Nixon (9 January 1913 – 22 April 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974, when he became the only president to resign the office. Nixon had previously served as a Republican U.S. representative and senator from California from 1947 to 1952 and as the 36th vice president of the United States from 1953 to 1961.
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As long as I'm sitting in the chair, there's not going to be any Jew appointed to that court. [No Jew] can be right on the criminal-law issue.
Short of changing human nature ... the only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.
Being controversial in politics is inevitable. If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything. In the world today, there are not many good choices — only choices between the half-good and the less half-good.
But, Bob, generally speaking, you can't trust the bastards. They turn on you. Am I wrong or right?
The Jews are irreligious, atheistic, immoral bunch of bastards.
We shall support vigorously the principle that no country has the right to impose its will or rule on another by force.
It is not enough just to be for peace. The point is, what can we do about it?
We must maintain the integrity of the White House, and that integrity must be real, not transparent. There can be no whitewash at the White House.
But by God, there are exceptions. But Bob, generally speaking, you can't trust the bastards. They turn on us.
Isn't it better to talk about the relative merits of washing machines than the relative strength of rockets? Isn't this the kind of competition you want?
And I want you to know that I have no intention whatever of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do for the people of the United States.
1 in 10 chance perhaps, but save Chile! worth spending; not concerned; no involvement of embassy; $10,000,000 available, more if necessary; full-time job — best men we have; game plan; make the economy scream; 48 hours for plan of action.
What it is, is it's the insecurity. It's the latent insecurity. Most Jewish people are insecure. And that's why they have to prove things.
The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep.
I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.
I'm not for women, frankly, in any job. I don't want any of them around. Thank God we don't have any in the Cabinet.
The Rehnquist Choice (2001)
War is an option whose time has passed. Peace is the only option for the future.
Real Peace (1983)
We are faced this year with the choice between the "work ethic" that built this Nation's character and the new "welfare ethic" that could cause that American character to weaken.
North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.
The peace we seek in the world is not the flimsy peace which is merely an interlude between wars, but a peace which can endure for generations to come.
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