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I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

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We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

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Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

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The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

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Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.

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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

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I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: August 27th, 1908

Died: January 22nd, 1973

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