Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1255
AUTHOR:
Richard Milhous Nixon (191394)
QUOTATION:
We are not bent on conquest or on threatening others. But we do have a nuclear umbrella that can protect others, above all the states to which we are allied or in which we have a great national interest.
ATTRIBUTION:
President RICHARD M. NIXON, on-the-record interview with C. L. Sulzberger, March 8, 1971.The New York Times, March 10, 1971, p. 14.