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title: Richard Nixon
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/quotes/richard-nixon/
description: 4 verified quotes from Richard Nixon, President of the United States, with sources.
section: FRAME
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[Quotes](https://propagandaarchive.org/quotes/) · United States

# Richard Nixon

President of the United States · United States

4 quotes, oldest first. [Filter with other speakers](https://propagandaarchive.org/quotes/#speaker=richard-nixon).

1. > “They then murdered more than 50,000 people and hundreds of thousands more died in slave labor camps.” — November 3, 1969 · Broadcast · Washington, D.C., televised address from the White House — Televised address on Vietnam policy. Nixon describes what he says followed the Communist takeover of North Vietnam fifteen years earlier and offers it as the precedent for what a US withdrawal from the South would bring. — Address to the Nation on the War in Vietnam, 3 November 1969, The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) [Source](https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-the-nation-the-war-vietnam)
2. > “In January I could only conclude that the precipitate withdrawal of American forces from Vietnam would be a disaster not only for South Vietnam but for the United States and for the cause of peace.” — November 3, 1969 · Broadcast · Washington, D.C., televised address from the White House — Nixon's stated reason for rejecting immediate withdrawal from Vietnam. The sentences that follow in the same address argue that withdrawal would allow massacres in the South. — Address to the Nation on the War in Vietnam, 3 November 1969, The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) [Source](https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-the-nation-the-war-vietnam)
3. > “I have chosen this second course. It is not the easy way. It is the right way.” — November 3, 1969 · Broadcast · Washington, D.C., televised address from the White House — Said after Nixon set immediate withdrawal against a gradual withdrawal tied to South Vietnamese strength (Vietnamization). The next sentence calls it a plan that will end the war and serve the cause of peace. — Address to the Nation on the War in Vietnam, 3 November 1969, The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) [Source](https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-the-nation-the-war-vietnam)
4. > “And so tonight--to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans--I ask for your support.” — November 3, 1969 · Broadcast · Washington, D.C., televised address from the White House — Televised address during the Vietnam War, weeks after the October 1969 Moratorium protests. Nixon asks the audience he describes as a silent majority to support his plan. — Address to the Nation on the War in Vietnam, 3 November 1969, The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) [Source](https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-the-nation-the-war-vietnam)