Richard Nixon

This legislation is an important step toward true equality on the job front.

The legislation extends the protections of title VII to millions of American citizens previously excluded from its coverage.

This bill, addressing specific needs in concrete and practical ways, is bound to make a real difference in the lives of great numbers of minority Americans.

The most significant aspect of this legislation is a new authority consistently advocated by this Administration since 1969.

This bill is the result of hard work and constructive debate in both branches of Congress by Members of both parties.

It is an act of Congressional collaboration in the best tradition.

I AM gratified to have signed into law H.R. 1746, the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972.

A Presidential aide must listen to all of those who come to the White House, as they do in great numbers on all sides of all cases with regard to complaints that they have or causes that they wish to work for, just as they go to the…

I believe that he should be confirmed and I believe that he will be confirmed.

What we are really trying to do there, Miss Lewine, and this has been done under my direction, is to break a filibuster.

What is improper is for a Presidential aide to use influence for personal gain, and to use influence in any way that would not be in the public interest.

Whenever the enemy is ready to negotiate seriously, we are ready to negotiate.

I have directed the Price Commission to proceed on course, working alongside the Pay Board to cut inflation in half by the end of the year.

As President, I cannot permit any leader representing a special interest, no matter how powerful, to torpedo and sink a program which is needed to protect the public interest.

Mr. Meany supported the increase. The Pay Board was right. Mr. Meany was wrong.

All Americans, including particularly the 80 million wage earners in this country, have a stake in winning the fight against inflation.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands . . .

The Chairman of the Commission is hereby authorized and directed to refer to the Water Resources Council any matters under consideration by the Commission which relate to areas of interest or jurisdiction of the International Joint…

It is hereby determined that the jurisdiction of the Missouri River Basin Commission referred to in Section 1 of this order shall extend to the State of Nebraska and those portions of the States of Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota…

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 22nd day of March, 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.

The Chairman of the Commission shall report to the President through the Water Resources Council.

We are devoted to peace in the world; we are devoted to the independence of nations; we are devoted to a system of government which provides a freedom of choice, a parliamentary system in your country and the system of government which we…

You can assure the Members of the House and the Senate, and all those gathered here, and those who may be listening or hearing on television or radio, that the present Turkish Government is totally committed to stopping all growing of the…

Mr. Prime Minister, that friendship goes back, as you and I recalled in our discussions today, many years.

There wasn't a vote against it in either the House or the Senate.