When I spoke at the St. Lawrence Seaway ceremonies in 1969, I borrowed some words from the monument there which I had joined Queen Elizabeth in dedicating just 10 years before. That monument, as its inscription puts it, 'bears witness to the common purpose of two nations whose frontiers are the frontiers of friendship, whose ways are the ways of freedom, whose works are the works of peace'.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

The people's right to change what does not work is one of the greatest principles in our system of government

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

As our cities and suburbs relentlessly expand, those priceless open spaces needed for recreation areas accessible to their people are swallowed up-often forever. Unless we preserve these spaces while they are still available, we will have none to preserve.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.