Richard Nixon

My answer then, and my answer now, is 'no.'

This trip to Canada has been one which has been very much in our minds, and to which we have been looking forward for many months; as a matter of fact, since entering office.

We respect the separate identity, the right to pursue its own way that the people of Canada desire for their own destiny.

I am pleased to submit to the Congress this Fourth Annual Report of the National Science Board, 'The Role of Engineers and Scientists in a National Policy for Technology.'

It is a very great pleasure to have at this head table at least two or three people who are not running for the office which I now hold.

I am confident that the Congress will find this Report useful.

But I think that as far as the Prime Minister is concerned, and Mrs. Trudeau whom we have had the privilege and honor of meeting for the first time tonight--that the Prime Minister has proved that he is a very effective political leader.

Two nations, very much alike but also very different, and very proud--proud of what we are like and proud of how we are different but two nations living together in peace, discussing differences, not fighting about them.

We realize the imperative importance of having better relations with our friends and close neighbors, and that is one of the reasons we are here.

We must treat last April's meetings not as a closed episode, but as an effective first step.

We Canadians and Americans, because we are only an hour and 10 minutes apart by air, must never miss the opportunity to see each other in person, to discuss our differences, maybe to continue them but at least to discuss them, and to…

Canada and the United States, by their example, can contribute enormously to a new world in which nations can live together in peace, friendship, and understanding, maintaining their dignity, maintaining their individuality.

I do hereby urge the people of the United States to honor our American merchant marine on May 22, 1972.

We have found a way to discuss our differences in a friendly way and without war, and this is the great lesson for all the world to see.

The first official visitor who came to the United States after I was inaugurated as President of the United States was the Prime Minister.

The commitment of this Administration to continued progress toward that goal is clearly reflected in the array of programs which I have detailed in my latest Budget Message.

As you have very well pointed out, while we have been friends and are friends, while we have a great unguarded boundary, we have differences: We have differences in forms of government, we are competitive economically in many areas, and we…

I have great hope that we can realize the full potential of American technology for serving our national purposes.

We must also recognize another proposition, and that is that a great responsibility particularly rests upon the great powers, that every great power must follow the principle that it should not encourage directly or indirectly any other…

It means that all the scientists of the world, certainly a universal community, whatever their language, whatever their race, whatever their background, instead of working to develop biological weapons which one nation might use against…

They are means to an end, and that end is peace.

I, for one, was always grateful that I could seek his wise counsel.

I will miss it now that I cannot.

They limit arms, but they do not mean the end of war.

Insofar as that goal is concerned, we begin with one proposition, and that is that each nation of the world must renounce the use of force, the use of aggression against other nations.