Richard Nixon actually said...

The first is that health and safety of the nation should be protected against damaging work stoppages.

Special Message to the Congress on Labor Disputes in the Transportation Industry.

02/26/1970

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But time is critical. Every day we lose compounds the tragedy which drugs inflict on individual Americans.

When traffic in narcotics is no longer profitable, then that traffic will cease.

I urge the Congress to give this proposal the highest priority, and I trust it will do so.

The problem has assumed the dimensions of a national emergency.