...themselves under attack from within and from without. If when the chips are down the United States acts like a pitiful helpless giant, the forces of...nations and free institutions throughout the world. Now, that is pretty moral language, and so he says, we who are against the war, we don't have a monopoly...

..."incursion." He told the American people the United States must not act "like a pitiful, helpless giant" or "the forces of totalitarianism and anarchy will threaten...nations and free institutions throughout the world." "If we fail to meet this challenge, all other nations will be on notice that, despite its overwhelming...

..."incursion." He told the American people the United States must not act "like a pitiful, helpless giant" or "the forces of totalitarianism and anarchy will threaten...nations and free institutions throughout the world." "If we fail to meet this challenge, all other nations will be on notice that, despite its overwhelming...

...or coordinated design, As Nixon explained at the time of the Cambodian invasion in April 1970, "1f, when the chips are down, the world's most powerful...nations and free institutions throughout the world." Great nations had to preserve their dignity, even while cutting their losses. "We could not simply...

...characteristically hyperbolic note: 'If when the chips are down, the world's most powerful nation . . . acts like a pitiful helpless giant, the forces of...free nations and free institutions throughout the world.'29 A year later, the President, acknowledging the reliance of the Lon Nol regime upon American...

...president expressed this view most strikingly in his justification for the 1970 incursion into Cambodia. "If, when the chips are down, the world's most powerful...nations and free institutions throughout the world. ":H This concern overpowered the Nixon-Kissinger assertion that it was the overall balance of power...

...anticommunism. Nixon himself declared in an often-quoted l970 defense of his Vietnam policy, "If. . . the world's most powerful nation, the United States...nations and free institutions throughout the world." Six years later Kissinger embroidered on this timeworn theme: "America cannot be true to its heritage...

...to the American people by television: "If when the chips are down, the world's most powerful nation acts like a pitiful helpless giant, the forces of...nations and free institutions throughout the world." He added that he would rather be a one-term President than preside over the nation's first defeat.12...

...nation. In vintage Cold War hyperbole: "If, when the chips are down, the world's most powerful nation acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of...nations and free institutions throughout the world." In reaction to the US action into Cambodia, the NLF and North Vietnamese delegates walked out of the...

...30, 1970.— Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard Nixon, 1970, p. 410. 1886 If, when the chips are down, the world's most powerful...nations and free institutions throughout the world. President RICHARD M. NIXON, address to the nation on the situation in Southeast Asia, April 30, 1970.—...