Richard Nixon

You have my personal mandate to undertake this task in coordination with Chairman James Oates of the Jobs for Veterans Committee, and you will have the full support of other Federal agencies.

This is an effort which I consider to be of the highest priority in Federal manpower and training programs, and of such importance that every available program should be used to the maximum toward achieving its goals.

My purpose is not to announce new policies, but to define and explain the policies we have--setting forth what we will do and what we will not.

One of the achievements of this Administration of which I am most proud has been the dramatic progress we have made in increasing the supply of housing.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and statutes of the United States, Section 1 (b) of Executive Order No. 11513 of March 3, 1970, is amended by deleting 'sixteen' and inserting 'eighteen'.

I hope America will always be the land of the open door, because as long as that door is open, it means that this land will continue to grow and continue to prosper and continue to have that drive which makes a great nation.

Let me speak to you about why it is so important for us to be the land of the open door, why, not simply from the standpoint of wanting our country to provide a haven for people who are distressed, people who need assistance from other…

Now, Therefore, I, Richard Nixon, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week beginning October 3, 1971, as Fire Prevention Week.

Every person should be alert to the ways in which he can eliminate fire hazards.

But while we all give occasional lip-service to the importance of fire prevention, our deeds too often fail to match our words—and so the loss continues.

Every citizen should learn how to report fires, how to use basic extinguishing agents and firefighting techniques, and how to react when major fires strike his place of work or his residence.

The designation of the Customs Cooperation Council as a public international organization within the meaning of the International Organizations Immunities Act shall not be deemed to abridge in any respect privileges, exemptions, and…

I hereby designate the Customs Cooperation Council as a public international organization entitled to enjoy the privileges, exemptions, and immunities conferred by the International Organizations Immunities Act.

The time has now come for government and industry to commit themselves to a joint effort to achieve commercial scale demonstrations in the most crucial and most promising clean energy development areas.

I am therefore announcing today a broad range of actions to ensure an adequate supply of clean energy for the years ahead.

This is the first time that a message on energy of a comprehensive nature has been sent to the Congress by a President of the United States.

I believe it important to the Nation that the commercial demonstration of a breeder reactor be completed by 1980.

The funds generated by the emissions charge would be used by the Federal Government to expand its programs to improve environmental quality, with special emphasis on the development of adequate supplies of clean energy.

Public hearings would be held far enough ahead of construction so that they could influence the siting decision, helping to avoid environmental problems without causing undue construction delays.

The reason it is essential, and I consider the program urgent, is that in all great industrial societies we face two challenges: one, to find new sources of energy to fuel the economy; and two, to find sources of energy that will not…

It is your challenge not only to help keep America strong, and not only to help keep it prosperous, but to keep the character of this Nation, its idealism.

There are things wrong with it, but in changing what is wrong, let's not destroy what is right.

No one lives there. They just come and go.

I do not know how we can replace him, but the time has come when we must find another one who can become that indispensable man.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this first day of June, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventy-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred ninety-fifth.