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PRESIDENT NIXON: Address to the Nation Outlining a New Economic Policy: "The Challenge of Peace."
UCSB Presidency Archives ^ | August 15, 1971

Posted on 03/02/2025 1:49:24 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege

Good evening:

I have addressed the Nation a number of times over the past 2 years on the problems of ending a war. Because of the progress we have made toward achieving that goal, this Sunday evening is an appropriate time for us to turn our attention to the challenges of peace.

America today has the best opportunity in this century to achieve two of its greatest ideals: to bring about a full generation of peace, and to create a new prosperity without war.

Prosperity without war requires action on three fronts: We must create more and better jobs; we must stop the rise in the cost of living; we must protect the dollar from the attacks of international money speculators.

We are going to take that action--not timidly, not half-heartedly, and not in piecemeal fashion. We are going to move forward to the new prosperity without war as befits a great people--all together, and along a broad front.

The time has come for a new economic policy for the United States. Its targets are unemployment, inflation, and international speculation. And this is how we are going to attack those targets.

....At the end of World War II the economies of the major industrial nations of Europe and Asia were shattered. To help them get on their feet and to protect their freedom, the United States has provided over the past 25 years $143 billion in foreign aid. That was the right thing for us to do.

Today, largely with our help, they have regained their vitality. They have become our strong competitors, and we welcome their success. But now that other nations are economically strong, the time has come for them to bear their fair share of the burden of defending freedom around the world...

(Excerpt) Read more at presidency.ucsb.edu ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: china; coldwar; nixon; peace; richardnixon; russia; speech; ukraine

1 posted on 03/02/2025 1:49:24 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
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Bill Murray Says Bob Woodward Should Answer for ‘Tearing Down’ John Belushi: ‘I Read Five Pages and Went, Oh My God, They Framed Nixon’

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2 posted on 03/02/2025 1:59:07 PM PST by Gene Eric
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Well, we can’t have any of THAT going on, can we.


3 posted on 03/02/2025 2:00:53 PM PST by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
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To: Gene Eric

From what I’ve read....Woodward is a supposed “spook”.


4 posted on 03/02/2025 2:06:46 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Uncle Sugar" is being audited and having an enema.)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

wouldn’t surprise me


5 posted on 03/02/2025 2:09:30 PM PST by Gene Eric
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Video of the speech

The Challenge of Peace - President Nixon’s Address to the Nation on A New Economic Policy
https://rumble.com/v6q0qwc-the-challenge-of-peace-president-nixons-address-to-the-nation-on-a-new-econ.html


6 posted on 03/02/2025 2:09:39 PM PST by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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