President Speech
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"My fellow Americans, we live in an age of anarchy, both abroad and at home. We see mindless attacks on all the great institutions which have been created by free civilizations in the last 500 years. Even here in the United States, great universities are being systematically destroyed. Small nations all over the world find themselves under attack from within and from without.
If, when the chips are down, the world's most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of totalitarianism and anarchy will threaten free nations and free institutions throughout the world.
It is not our power but our will and character that is being tested tonight. The question all Americans must ask and answer tonight is this: Does the richest and strongest nation in the history of the world have the character to meet a direct challenge by a group which rejects every effort to win a just peace, ignores our warning, tramples on solemn agreements, violates the neutrality of an unarmed people, and uses our prisoners as hostages?
If we fail to meet this challenge, all other nations will be on notice that despite its overwhelming power the United States, when a real crisis comes, will be found wanting."
President Trump in September 2020?
Nope - President Nixon April 1970.
Came across this speech as it was reference in a book I am currently reading - "Play Through The Whistle".
However, it seems as though it could have been said by a President today. Oftentimes, there are "predictions" that the US is falling apart, it is the end, etc. I think that the US has done pretty well in the last 50 years from 1970 and I am confident that it will do pretty well in the 50 years from 2020.
I think that the "doom saying" from both sides it irrational.
