Richard Nixon Quotes
With a stable peace anything is possible; without peace, nothing is possible.
He was referring to the national budget where so much money was spent on the military that there was little left over to finance new initiatives.
Richard M. Nixon, 1913-1994, 37th President of the United States (Republican, CA), State of the Union Message, 1972
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Mohamed Anwar El-Sedat
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, Nixon previously served as the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961, having risen to national prominence as a representative and senator from California. After five years in the White House that saw the conclusion to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, and the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency, he became the only president to resign from the office, following the Watergate scandal.
