I, Richard Nixon, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week beginning October 7, 1973, as Fire Prevention Week.

Secretary Morton pointed out in our meeting this morning that when we think of the energy sources for the United States, that 4 percent, only 4 percent presently in the ground, come from oil, 3 percent potentially from natural gas, and 91 percent from coal.

Keep America strong, be sure that we see that the United States remains respected in the world.

The day the United States becomes the second strongest nation in the world, peace and freedom will be in deadly jeopardy everywhere in the world.

The United States is the only nation ever to become the most powerful in the world without seeking to.

Let's make sure that the United States is never number two in the world so that the United States can continue to lead the world to peace.

On behalf of the United States, I wish to reaffirm our commitment to work with the members of the European Community for reform of the international economic system

The United States will approach forthcoming negotiations on monetary and trade reform.

It is important that the Chinese people--and that is one-fourth of all the people in this world--not be enemies of the United States.

I pledge to you, we shall keep the United States in a position second to none in its national defense, because we know we will use it for peace.

The kind of system you have in France is different from that in the United States.

I am delighted to welcome all of you to the White House on the occasion of your tour of the United States.

It would be the most immoral thing I could think of to give amnesty to draft dodgers and those who deserted the United States.

I do hereby urge the people of the United States to observe the week of October 8, 1972, as National School Lunch Week

I pointed out both in my statement to the Congress and also to the Members of the Congress, both House and Senate, who had to consider these agreements, that we considered this a cooperative venture and we wanted the Congress to examine the agreements and to reach a conclusion, independently of the Executive, that they were in the interest of the United States.

I am convinced that these agreements are in the security interest of the United States.

In Witness Whereof, I hereunto set my hand this third day of June, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventy-two and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred ninety-sixth.

We are proud that Iran is a friend of the United States, that the United States is a friend of Iran.