Carolina QuotesOn Christmas Eve, during my terrible personal ordeal of the renewed bombing of North Vietnam, which after 12 years of war finally helped to bring America peace with honor, I sat down just before midnight. I wrote out some of my goals for my second term as President. Let me read them to you:
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To make it possible for our children, and for our children's children, to live in a world of peace. — To make this country be more than ever a land of opportunity — of equal opportunity, full opportunity for every American. — To provide jobs for all who can work, and generous help for those who cannot work. To establish a climate of decency and civility, in which each person respects the feelings and the dignity and the God-given rights of his neighbor. — To make this a land in which each person can dare to dream, can live his dreams — not in fear, but in hope — proud of his community, proud of his country, proud of what America has meant to himself and to the world.
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- First Watergate Speech (1973)
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- 1973
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