Richard Nixon

Section 2 of that order, placing certain positions in level V of the Federal Executive Salary Schedule, is amended

Executive Order No. 11248 of October 10, 1965, as amended, is further amended as follows

I have determined that the provisions and procedures prescribed by this Order are necessary to assure the preservation of the integrity of the classified information of NATO, SEATO, and CENTO, and to protect the national interest.

It is, of course, in the interest of the United States that United States citizens who participate in the activities of NATO, SEATO, and CENTO as direct hire employees of the civil or military agencies of those organizations be reliable…

Some of the best service programs for older Americans are those which give older Americans a chance to serve.

As a matter of fact, I think he has something that he is going to be saying tomorrow on some subjects, and he will be listened to.

You said you wanted an aggressive, articulate spokesman for agriculture in the White House, and Mr. President, you have got him.

I think corn prices are too low.

But the vote wasn't until 1:00. Were you that confident?

Any action which enhances the dignity of older Americans enhances the dignity of all Americans.

We need the resources which you alone can offer.

He needs to be not only articulate, as he is, as he has just demonstrated, and tenacious, as he obviously will be, but he also has to be a magician.

The volumes, so very many of them, when I have seen them down there, just gathered dust.

But the point is, it will be done.

As long as I am here, I will go over and shake off the dust myself to find out what was said.

I want all of you to know what a great inspiration it is for me to be here, to see you, to hear you, to see the young people that represent all of America.

Your generation has the opportunity to participate more fully in the American adventure than young people have ever been able to do since Revolutionary times 200 years ago.

The world in which I have grown up has not been an open world, not an open world because so much of it was closed by curtains--iron curtains, bamboo curtains, call it what you will.

This sense of kinship, forged into a firm new alliance of the generations, will be essential if we are to seize the breathtaking opportunities opening up for America and the world in the coming decades.

I want to tell you why I think you should believe it, believe it very, very deeply today, not with any Pollyannaish statement in which we cover up those things that are wrong about our country and wrong about this world.

Young people today, every survey shows, are more generously committed to human betterment through voluntary service than any generation before you.

The Government of the People's Republic of China and the Government of the United States of America have agreed that President Nixon's visit to China shall begin on February 21, 1972.

Along with this we have proposed a new organizational arrangement that will vastly improve the effectiveness of the cancer abatement effort.

The proposals we have submitted speak to the weaknesses of the present system.

These two goals are realistic and achievable.