Richard Nixon

To go forward at all is to go forward together

There will be another announcement that will be made before May 1 with regard to a further withdrawal.

I am announcing today the withdrawal of an additional 70,000 [troops] from Vietnam over the next 3 months.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this thirteenth day of January, 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.

This means that our troop ceiling by May 1 will be down to 69,000.

I think the elderly have in him one who will very effectively present a point of view that needs to be represented here in the highest office of the White House, eloquently, as he does.

Together, these measures are designed to insure that Federal workers--white and blue-collar--receive similar treatment with regard to pay adjustments.

I have authorized an immediate resumption of wage surveys for blue-collar workers, which will lead to pay increases for those workers where the surveys indicate that adjustments are needed.

I am determined, as I said in my address to that Conference last month, that the voice of older Americans will be heard in the White House when matters that affect the interests of older Americans are being discussed.

As I bring him into this special position, I should point out to those members of the press corps who did not follow him then that he had several attributes.

Now, with Arthur Flemming's arrival as John Martin's teammate, 'senior power' doubles its forces at the White House.

I have signed an Executive order [11639] directing the Civil Service Commission to issue instructions to executive agencies on fixing the rates of basic pay for blue-collar employees.

I believe that we have in him the man who has the experience and the background to take this particular issue, to analyze all its parts, and to make recommendations, not for the sake of their being particularly melodramatic, but for the…

In order to provide, insofar as practicable, similar treatment of future pay adjustments for white- and blue-collar employees, my memorandum of September 1, 1971, directing the deferment of Federal blue-collar wage adjustments, is hereby…

Better Federal assistance to the aging should be the result.

I welcome Dr. Flemming as an old friend in swearing him in today.

The Chairman of the Civil Service Commission is being directed to take necessary actions to expedite wage surveys which have been delayed so that new wage schedules can be issued as soon as possible.

I know his heart is deeply committed, as is his mind, to the problems of the elderly.

Now I was trying to think of somebody who could speak in welcoming Mrs. Nixon and could appraise the trip in a very honest way.

However, before giving him this microphone, I want to remind him: I have the last word, and so does Mrs. Nixon.

You could call her Mrs. Nixon, or you could call her Madam Ambassador.

But I guess I will just call her 'Pat.'

The Vice President always says just what he thinks.

They also recognized that the maintenance of cooperative relations between Japan and the United States is an indispensable factor for peace and stability in Asia,

I feel it is essential, particularly in this year when events of such importance to the world's future are taking place, that at least until the Republican Convention the President should refrain from public partisan activities in order to…