Richard Nixon Quotes
Bring us together again.
Nixon, Richard. "Remarks on Behalf of the President-Elect." Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, 6 Nov. 1968.
Hall’s novel was banned in England and America on obscenity grounds for the quoted sentence. The characters were both women and the veiled implication of possible sex between two women was then considered pornography per se. The New York Judge who found the publisher guilty said “the book tends to debauch public morals.” The guilty verdict was overturned on appeal. As a result of the “negative publicity” the book sold over 1 million copies in the author’s lifetime and was translated into 11 languages. Suppression had the effect of giving the book enormous publicity which is often true in censorship cases. If nothing else, people want to see what the society says that they should not read.
Franklin suggested most of the text and graphic symbols that were minted on what is generally considered the first American Coin. The purpose of this text, which appears in the Center of one side of the coin was to emphasize the unity of the first 13 colonies just declaring their independence. This coin is for American collectors, one of the most valuable.
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, Nixon previously served as the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961, having risen to national prominence as a representative and senator from California. After five years in the White House that saw the conclusion to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, and the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency, he became the only president to resign from the office, following the Watergate scandal.
