Richard Nixon

It is my earnest hope that we will work well together.

It represents a severe blow not only to the tens of thousands of workers affected, and to their families, but also to the United States continued leadership position in the aerospace industry.

I assure you that the Administration will provide every assistance to you and your office on matters of mutual interest that will benefit and improve our Nation's great Capital City.

I hope you will attend the meeting tomorrow afternoon at the White House of black Members of the Congress.

Though the Congress has declined to continue helping fund this development, I shall strive to ensure that the tradition is maintained.

It has always been America's pride, and the source of much of our strength, that we have constantly reached out toward new horizons in the search for knowledge--not from a chauvinistic desire to be number one, but from the conviction that…

CONGRATULATIONS on your election as Delegate to the Congress from the District of Columbia.

It is a setback, but we will remain on a continuing course of exploration and development in those areas in which America traditionally has taken the leading role, and from which so much has flowed to the benefit of mankind.

In this Administration there would be 'a new measure of reliance on voluntary efforts, and a new level of official public recognition of their immense contribution to the betterment of life in America.'

He can count on the enthusiastic cooperation of this Administration and on my own deep and continuing personal interest.

The National Center was conceived as a private, nonprofit, nonpolitical organization to work in a 'creative partnership' with both the Federal Government and private volunteer agencies in encouraging a resurgence of voluntarism in America.

I hope he is reasonably intelligent, a man with courage, and a man who can give some political leadership, maybe make a speech, and that sort of thing.

They were fighting on the enemy's terrain, on his turf, against overwhelming numbers.

I commend this report to your careful attention.

You cannot have a viable peace, a tolerable security in the future, if your own back door becomes a theater of war.

Well, I think first, Mr. Smith, with regard to what you call the credibility gap, that many observers--in fact, I think I even recall something you said at one time--have pointed out that Presidents, particularly when they have difficult…

Well, I don't feel it is 'the winter of my discontent.'

We will, of course, leave here a few advisers, those that are in Saigon and are not in jeopardy, but otherwise we will not have the troops in Vietnam by the end of the year and into 1973.

I also said, however, at that time, that I would use American air power anyplace in North Vietnam, or in the Southeast Asian area, where I found that it would be necessary for the purpose of protecting American forces in South Vietnam.

And the withdrawal rate, as a matter of fact, slightly increased after Cambodia because of its success.

I call upon all the people of the United States to observe this week in heartfelt prayer, and in ceremonies and activities appropriate to voice deep concern for the prisoners and missing men, to inspire their loved ones with new courage…

As I have contended in a number of messages to the Congress in the past two years, our society has become too complex and too diversified to profit from such highly centralized control.

Every State would be guaranteed a minimum allocation of $250,000.

It is clear, however, that more money and more regulations alone will not solve our transportation problems.

I propose that the Special Revenue Sharing Program for Transportation become effective on January 1, 1972.