"Many things are necessary to lead a full, free life--good health, economic and educational opportunity, and a fair break in the marketplace, to name a few. But none of these is more important than the most basic of all individual rights, the right to privacy. A system that fails to respect its citizens' right to privacy fails to respect the citizens themselves. ... At no time in the past has our Government known so much about so many of its individual citizens.
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Advanced technology has created new opportunities for America as a nation, but it has also created the possibility for new abuses of the individual American citizen. Adequate safeguards must always stand watch so that man remains the master-and never becomes the victim--of the computer."

Radio Address About the American Right of Privacy - Richard M. Nixon, 23 February 1974

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/radio-address-about-the-american-right-privacy

Part of this speech is featured in an excerpt from the 1981 NOVA documentary, "Computers, Spies and Private Lives", restored by the Computer History Archives Project (CHAP).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvGgeb0RVyY

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14/23 #RichardMNixon, the Republican California senator (though born in NY) who had been vice-president under #DwightDEisenhower, ran for president back in 1960, losing to #JFK.

He lost the 1964 nomination to #BarryGoldwater (noted as a significant conservative shift for the Republican party).

Nixon ran again in 1968 and (finally) won — but just barely; to strengthen his administration, he needed an angle, coming up with his #SouthernStrategy.

Nixon strategically powered the #PartySwitch