- Title: USA: PRESIDENT NIXON PRESS CONFERENCE AFTER CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS
- Date: 5th November 1970
- Summary: 1. GV San Clemente building 0.02 2. SV President Nixon walking from building and over to dog 0.16 3. GV Crowd 0.18 4. SCU President Nixon speaking (SOUND ON FILM) 1.58 TRANSCRIPT: SEQ. 4: NIXON: "The most important result of the election, from the standpoint of the administration, and I think from the standpoint of the world and the nations in the Senate. The gain was two, it possibly may be three, depending upon how the count comes out in Indiana. Far more significant than a gain of two or three is something that you ladies and gentlemen will remember when I pointed out the reason I was campaigning so hard over the country, was that in the past two years the Senate has been so evenly divided that a majority of one determined the big votes on foreign policy and national defence. But I thought it was important to have more than a majority of just one in support of the administration's policies in foreign policy and national defence. We have increased our majority now to a working majority in both the houses and the Senate for national defence and also for foreign policy, a working majority of four in the Senate, which means that in terms of the President's ability to conduct foreign policy, to make decisions he considers, and his administration considers important to the future of the country and to the cause of peace generally. That he can speak with a much stronger voice in the world than was previously the case. The results of this election as far as the Senate is concerned, will not go unnoticed abroad, they enormously strengthen our hand at home, and I believe that they will contribute to the goal that I have been talking about, our desire to end the war in Vietnam with a just peace, and conduct our foreign policy generally and our defence policy in a way that we can win a full generation of peace." Initials MF/TB/ES. 16.58 orig on 10691/B/70 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: SAN CLEMENTE, U.S.A.
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- Country: USA
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