Nixon & Price (Kissinger too)

From the Nixon chapter of Robert Schlesinger's White House Ghosts: Presidents and their Speechwriters:

Richard Nixon and Raymond Price finished working on the inaugural address at around midnight on Saturday, January 18, in Nixon's Pierre Hotel suite in New York City. Nixon split a bottle of Heineken with his speechwriter and put his feet up on the desk. "Only the short ones are remembered," he had told Price. "Lincoln's second was a great one -- Theodore Roosevelt's was damn good, even though it came in the middle of his presidency. Wilson's was very good, and FDR's first. Kennedy's basically stands up because it has some good phrases, and because it caught the mood and it caught himself." 

Quoting from Price's book, With Nixon, Schlesinger tells us that Henry Kissinger had submitted a couple of sentences he had negotiated with Soviet representatives. They read:

To those who, for most of the postwar period, I have opposed and, occasionally, threatened us, I repeat what I have already said: let the coming years be a time of negotiation rather than confrontation. During this administration the lines of communication will always be open. 

Translated into speech cadences, those lines became: 

"After a period of confrontation, we are entering an era of negotiation. Let all nations know that during this administration our lines of communication will be open."