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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 1255
AUTHOR: Richard Milhous Nixon (1913–94)
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.
SUBJECTS: Nuclear energy