Andrew Jackson, in a message to the Senate, 6 May 1830, three weeks prior to the passage of the Indian Removal Act.It is certainly desirous . . . that some agreement should be concluded with the Indians by which an object so important as their...
presidential statement of the day
Herbert Hoover, in a message addressed to the National Conference of Parents and Teachers, 5 May 1929:The state is all of us. Some of us have no home, some have.
Lyndon Johnson, in a televised address given on 2 May 1965, just after the United States invaded the Dominican Republic to thwart an alleged communist revolt:To those who fight only.
Richard Nixon, 1 May 1971:This is not a police state. I have been to police states; I know what they are. I think that the best thing that could happen to some of the Congressmen and Senators and others who talk about police states is...