Policy

The enactment of this legislation marks another important step in our efforts to provide a better life for those who have given so much to preserve and protect our Nation.

I believe that S. 1116, which I am approving today, prepares us to take just such measures.

This President, this Government, is unwilling to take that step.

It would be better to have no legal services corporation than one so irresponsibly structured.

If this congressional action were allowed to stand, OEO would become an operational agency, diluting its special role as incubator and tester of ideas and pioneer for social programs.

I have directed the Departments of Labor and the Treasury to complete their study within one year.

Along with this we have proposed a new organizational arrangement that will vastly improve the effectiveness of the cancer abatement effort.

We proposed the National Health Insurance Partnership which would provide financing of health care for all American families.

I believe that this ill-timed measure should be rejected, and that our efforts should be directed toward the positive tasks and the great opportunities for achieving a real peace that lie before us.

I believe passage of such a measure would be a great mistake.

The price freeze was successful.

The actions I have been discussing today demonstrate the Government's response to the challenge of expanding health manpower.

The chief provisions of these two new acts are as follows: 1. Per Capita Assistance.

It is because section 601 of this bill will not in fact alter this policy that I have signed it into law.

To launch this coordinated national effort at reducing mental retardation and ministering more effectively to its victims, I am today initiating a review process throughout the Federal Government.

Executive Order No. 10358 of June 9, 1952, entitled Observance of Holidays by Government Agencies, and amendatory Executive Orders No. 11226 of May 27, 1965, and No. 11272 of February 23, 1966, are revoked.

It is particularly important that the rationale supporting the basic departmental structure I will recommend be well understood.

Time and again, as the nation has suffered major disruptions from a transportation shutdown, voices have been raised on all sides declaring emphatically that this must not happen again.