White house Quote by Paul Vigna

“In January 1971 he startled the newsman Howard K. Smith by telling him, "I am now a Keynesian in economics," and in August he…

— James T. Patterson

I think I understand the Constitution a little bit because in 1971 we went off the gold standard under President Nixon into the Federal…

— Bill O'Reilly

You could own coins but you couldn't have bars of gold. We were on the gold standard. I think it was Nixon who took…

— Carl Andre

“President John F. Kennedy, like Lincoln, attempted to curtail the bankers by diminishing the power of the Federal Reserve. In June 1963, he issued…

— Jim Marrs

On August 28, 1933, Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6260, outlawing the constitutional right of U.S. citizens to own gold.

— Michael Maloney

I went to America in the winter of 1872-73, authorised to secure, if I could, the passage of a bill demonetising silver. It was…

— Ernest Seyd

“As Bishop listened, it was all making sense. Bishop knew his history and was aware of the 1944 agreement at the Bretton Woods Conference,…

— Mike Lutz

I don't believe President Nixon ordered a break-in, but people working for him were doing it. And then that dragged the president in. And…

— Richard Painter

The international monetary order is more precarious by far today than it was in 1929. Then, gold was international money, incorruptible, unmanageable, and unchangeable.…

— Hans F. Sennholz

In 1971, the U.S. 'closed the gold window,' starting an era of global fiat money reference-pricing that has been unprecedented in history. Never before…

— Max Keiser

“Nixon quickly laid Golda’s fears to rest. Despite reams of memoranda from his staff warning him not to succumb to the Israeli prime minister’s…

— Elinor Burkett

We looked into the abyss if the gold price rose further. A further rise would have taken down one or several trading houses, which…

— Eddie George