It is to this end that I urge prompt and favorable consideration of this landmark legislation.
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The Commission has informed me that reforms are essential, reforms that cannot be made within existing law.
This Administration intends to carry out that responsibility fully and fairly.
My administration acted promptly to move us out of that war and cool the superheated economy.
The present welfare system has become a monstrous, consuming outrage.
I will urge the Congress to enact welfare reform and higher social security benefits to meet this need.
This order shall take effect as of the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1, 1971.
The changes, Mr. Chancellor, are primarily not physical.
In signing this legislation which provides comprehensive authority to help solve a very difficult problem, I must note that the bill contains some deficiencies which I believe warrant corrective action by the Congress.
I am directing the Office of Management and Budget to form a permanent relocation advisory group to review all problems encountered and to make recommendations to improve the relocation assistance guidelines and to recommend legislative…
I am pleased with this bill which responds to a vital need of the American people.
This is only one--and not necessarily the most efficient--method of achieving our national health care objectives, and should not be fixed in law.
We do think that it's a good start in the right direction.
I cannot accept a bill which so fully embraces this self-defeating concept.
The challenge is to use this legislation creatively.
I propose a new goal for our Indian programs: A goal that ends the old debate about 'termination' of Indian programs and stresses self-determination.