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...acknowledges that the Soviet use of the island as a strategic base is a legitimate U.S. concern, but argues that this is primarily a matter of U.S.-Soviet, not U.S.-Cuban relations. Continuing the OAS sanctions against Cuba "makes it easier for the Cuban government to justify and prolong its tight control of the intellectual and political activities of the Cuban people...
...This time the phrases somehow seemed more sonorous: "To do what is right as God gives me to see the right ... to uphold our laws with the help of God." He had searched his conscience, the President said, and "my conscience tells me clearly and certainly that I cannot prolong the bad dreams." Contemplating his own appearance before the bar of divine justice, he declared: "I ... will receive justice without mercy if I fail to show mercy...
...conscience tells me ... that I cannot prolong the bad dreams that continue to reopen a chapter that is closed. My conscience tells me that only I, as President, have the ... power to firmly shut and seal this book. My conscience says it is my duty not merely to proclaim domestic tranquillity, but to use every means I have to ensure...
...yield more tapes, Nixon also argued, would merely "prolong the impeachment inquiry without yielding significant additional evidence." Therefore, he concluded, he would decline to produce tapes and presidential diaries already subpoenaed and would similarly refuse to obey all subpoenas "allegedly dealing with Watergate" that "may hereafter be issued...
...rigid pursuit of a policy that imposes such heavy spending on defense," he wrote, "will irremediably compromise survival, the very thing for which the expense is being made. Trying to win a subversive war by military means is to accept defeat in advance, unless one possesses unlimited capacity to prolong the war indefinitely, turning it into an institution. Is this our objective? Clearly...