Richard Nixon

I believe very strongly that work--for those who are able to perform it is essential to a person's dignity and self-respect.

In my environmental message last February, I announced that I would take action 'to insure that no federally-owned property is demolished until its historic significance has first been reviewed.'

I CONGRATULATE the House of Representatives for having very wisely reversed their earlier position on the SST

It is important, however, that State and local officials be given ample notice of new grants.

Political pressures cannot be a basis for removal.

It is a program both new and unparalleled by any other system of justice in the world.

I believe that what we are doing has now checked the rise in unemployment.

I think it is well to put all of these economic indicators into some perspective.

As I welcome you home, I can say to you that the Nation is proud of you.

I hope to contribute to a policy in which we can have a new relationship with Mainland China.

My responsibility is to bring peace, but not just peace in our time, but peace in their time.

I believe that on that path we will end the war, we will bring a peace in Vietnam which will contribute to peace not just in our time but in their time.

I have indicated that I would review the case at an appropriate time in my capacity as the final reviewing officer.

I urge the Congress to give early and favorable consideration to this package of significant conservation proposals.

I urge the Congress to act quickly in favor of these new proposals as well as the ones already pending before it.

You can be confident that we have a policy that will achieve that goal.

You, and everyone else in this world, have a right to be confident that the United States will use its strength only to build peace with freedom, never to destroy it in the world.

This new security assistance program would, I am confident, serve our national interest in the 1970s in a number of important ways.

We have firmly espoused the rights of women, and we must now clearly demonstrate our recognition of the equality of women by making greater use of their skills in high level positions.

I have appointed a number of women to top posts and have named more than 200 to Presidential Advisory Boards and Commissions.

It has been my desire to attract the ablest and most talented people in the country to join this Administration and assist in the achievement of our far-reaching goals.

I have repeatedly stressed the essential role played by our military and related forms of assistance in supporting the foreign policy of the United States and our own security interests.

The Nation's many highly qualified women represent an important reservoir of ability and talent that we must draw on to a greater degree.

I am convinced that we can and must do better.

The IDC would operate to the maximum extent feasible within a framework set by the international financial institutions.