My paramount objective in managing nuclear wastes is to protect the health and safety of all Americans, both now and in the future.

Protecting the lives and health of our children requires continued vigilance and increased efforts to educate every citizen to the dangers of accidental ingestion of drugs and common household products.

One of my deepest personal commitments is to a clean, healthy environment for all of our citizens.

I ask each American to take the time and trouble to learn about drug abuse prevention.

Enlist the active support and assistance of individual citizens, civic groups, professional associations, amateur and professional sports groups, private enterprise, voluntary organizations and others in efforts to promote and improve the health of all Americans through regular participation in physical fitness and sports activities.

Arthritis, diabetes, and diseases of the digestive tract affect millions of Americans.

S. 2910 will clearly provide appropriate support of our efforts to solve the problems associated with these diseases.

The fight against sickle cell anemia continues to be a high priority for our Government

I invite all citizens, agencies and organizations concerned with child health to join in such activities as will help alert all Americans to the vital importance of improving child health.

By next June, we will have created the capacity to treat up to 250,000 heroin addicts annually--a thirty-fold increase over the amount of federally funded drug treatment which existed when I took office.

The glamorization of drugs has been halted.

I urge medical professionals, citizens groups, and the American people to unite during the month of May in public affirmation of this Nation's efforts to control arthritic diseases.

In recent years, as we know, the quality of the Great Lakes' water has been declining, with ominous implications for 30 million Americans and 7 million Canadians who live near their shores

I do hereby proclaim the month of February 1972 as American Heart Month.

The Eisenhower Medical Center will be a vital part of this Nation's effort to conquer illnesses that prevent men and women from living full lives.

More than half of the Indians obtain water from contaminated or potentially dangerous sources, and use waste disposal facilities that are grossly inadequate.

We cannot return to the time when to be poor was inevitably to be sick--without medical attention.

Every American should make a habit of regular eye examinations.