I Gave 'em A Sword. And They

We Must Maintain The Integrity Of The White House, And That Integrity Must Be Real, Not Transparent. There Can Be No Whitewash At The White House.

If In Order To Avoid Further Communist Expansion In Asia And Particularly In Indo-china, If In Order To Avoid It We Must Take The Risk By Putting American Boys In, I Believe That The Executive Branch Of The Government Has To Take The Politically Unpopular Position Of Facing Up To It And Doing It, And I Personally Would Support Such A Decision.

As This Long And Difficult War Ends, I Would Like To Address A Few Special Words To The American People: Your Steadfastness In Supporting Our Insistence On Peace With Honor Has Made Peace With Honor Possible.

Extremists On The Left Tend To Be Just As Critical Of Pragmatism As Extremists On The Right.

By Taking This Action, I Hope That I Will Have Hastened The Start Of The Healing.