Richard Nixon

My wife always says, 'I just wish you would stand as straight as you did when you came from Quonset.'

And one thing you learn when you go in the service, particularly somebody who comes, as I did, from a pretty good educational background-and I was reasonably successful as a lawyer-and then you go in there, and, as I said a moment ago, the…

Today, despite the terrible evidence of this century, there are those who have refused to learn the hard lessons of the history of tyranny.

This is a great country, and it is great because we have men like you who serve this country to maintain the peace forces of the United States.

Some of you are here today.

You know, for a lawyer that was duck soup.

I know it is the custom to tell graduating classes that they are facing great opportunities and great obligations.

Don't have any ideas--I see a lot of enlisted men around here--that lieutenant, junior grades, or ensigns or, for that matter, lieutenants run the Navy-the chiefs run the Navy.

I am never surprised to see these positions held.

My most earnest hope is that they will see it and thereby be consoled.

Our correctional systems must be changed to make them places that will correct and educate.

It is well known that I would prefer a negotiated agreement to solve this problem.

Justice delayed is not only justice denied, it is also justice circumvented, justice mocked, the system of justice undermined.

Reform as an abstraction is something that everybody is for, but reform as a specific is something that a lot of people are against.

Consequently, I will strongly support the textile quota provisions of the legislation now pending before the Congress, H.R. 20.

We shall become a genuinely just society only by 'playing the game according to the rules' and, when the rules become outdated or are shown to be unfair, by lawfully and peaceably changing those rules.

We think, of course, of Washington and Jefferson and Madison and Monroe, and then in this century, Wilson.

He was eloquent, tough, and convincing: a great leader among his peers.

The watchword of my Administration has been reform.

This was not a meeting of pleasantries or a pro forma occasion.

We must change the criminal court system, provide the manpower in terms of court staffs, prosecutors, defense counsel-to bring about speedier trials and appeals.

At the same time I am directing the Secretary of Commerce to monitor imports of wool and manmade fiber textile products from Japan on a monthly basis.

I also call upon appropriate officials of the Government to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings on that day as a manifestation of our loyalty to the Nation which that flag symbolizes.

Who are reporting for scheduled inductions as ordered by their local boards.

I, Richard Nixon, President of the United States of America, do call upon the people of the United States, and upon all patriotic, civic, and educational organizations, to observe Saturday, May 1, 1971 as Loyalty Day, with appropriate…