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Quotation by Richard M. Nixon
Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.
Richard M. Nixon (1913–1992), U.S. Republican politician, president. television broadcast, Nov. 3, 1969. Quoted in Nixon: The Triumph of a Politician, ch. 14, Stephen Ambrose (1989).
In his Memoirs, Nixon commented: "Very few speeches actually influence the course of history. The November 3 speech was one of them." On the subject of Vietnam, he later wrote: "No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now."("No More Vietnams" in New York Times (March 28, 1985)).
In his Memoirs, Nixon commented: "Very few speeches actually influence the course of history. The November 3 speech was one of them." On the subject of Vietnam, he later wrote: "No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now."("No More Vietnams" in New York Times (March 28, 1985)).
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