Richard Nixon

I am authorizing a new FHA Mobile Home Loan Insurance Program which should make purchase of mobile homes easier than it has been in the past.

I am today authorizing GNMA to extend Tandem Plan up to $3.3 billion of mortgages.

Bill Simon, in the field of economics here in the United States, has one fundamental belief that is the cornerstone of our economic philosophy.

I am pleased that District voters have chosen to set the city firmly on the path toward local self-government.

The new government will offer the means for greater decisionmaking responsibility and control at the local level, a goal for the Nation that this Administration has consistently sought.

We will also work closely with the city government in whatever way is needed to insure that this memorable step toward self-government is a success in the District of Columbia.

We should have refreshments.

The answer is not controls, but the answer is more productivity.

George Shultz is a fine man; he is a good man.

The Federal Government will take every appropriate action to insure that the transition to the new form of government is a smooth one.

To correct this problem, I am transmitting to the Congress today legislation which would raise the salaries of those in the lowest three levels of the Executive Schedule and thereby permit a significant increase in the salaries of those in…

Gentlemen, thank you very much.

For the past five years, the salaries of those in the Executive Schedule have been frozen, and with the recent action by the Congress, will continue to be frozen until 1977.

I would like to say, as we put that piece of legislation in the box, that as you know, there are 17 major proposals that I have sent to the Congress in the field of energy.

The Nation is in your debt for all the hard work, the compromise which brought forth a very responsible piece of legislation, and I express that appreciation to you.

Would you recommend that I sign it?

And of course, we will also appreciate any further action that can be taken on the other energy' measures which you, in your judgment, in a bipartisan atmosphere, deem fit to be in the best interest of the country.

For the sake of the career employees within the Government and the quality of management which we need within the Executive Branch, I urge the Congress to give this proposal its swift approval.

I am pleased to send to the Congress the Seventh Annual Report of the United States-Japan Cooperative Medical Science Program.

The sustained success of this biomedical research program reflects its careful management and the strong commitment of both nations to its continuation.

The increasingly effective research planning and communication between investigators in our two countries has intensified our scientific productivity and strengthened our determination to work together toward better health for all mankind.

I am pleased to announce my support of a major enlargement of the Havasupai Indian Reservation in the Grand Canyon.

What I am proposing, in short, is instant trust status for the land which the Havasupais have claimed and, one year later, a determination by both the tribe and the Secretary of the Interior as to how the values which originally led to the…

I have concluded that the Havasupais have waited long enough.

We must not commit the American economy to a straitjacket of controls.