Richard Nixon

Giving State and local officials full power to spend Federal manpower funds would sharply increase the citizen's ability to influence how the funds are spent.

It adds up to a titanic achievement in easing human suffering.

I have today designated March, 1971, as Red Cross Month.

I have proposed that $2 billion be provided for the first full year of the Manpower Revenue Sharing Act, which would replace the Manpower Development and Training Act and manpower provisions of the Economic Opportunity Act on January I…

It recognizes that transitional public service employment is an integral part of manpower policy--and places no ceiling on its extent within the manpower program.

I urge Federal employees to continue to offer their skills to voluntary organizations, assisting not only in their fund-raising efforts but also in the delivery of their services.

I also ask that each of you, as the head of a department or agency, provide your personal leadership in assuring the success of this new Combined Federal Campaign program.

Voluntarism in America will flourish only to the extent that as individual citizens we support the organizations that make voluntary action a reality.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 55 (a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939, as amended (26 U.S.C. (1952 Ed.) 55 (a)), and by section 6103 (a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (26 U.S.C. 6103 (a)), it is hereby…

This is the first that we have had of the special revenue sharing proposals and now you will have all of them by the end of this month.

When we think of law enforcement, too often we think of it at the Federal level.

This proposal is for $500 million and the Attorney General is here to answer your questions with regard to its scope and with regard to the various regulations that will be in effect insofar as the proposal is concerned.

We consider this a very appropriate one to be first, not only because we had the materials ready and the program ready to present but because this is an area where, above all others, it is vitally important that funds be provided for the…

Many of our State and local governments today are in serious financial difficulty.

I urge that the protection from discrimination now provided minorities under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 be expressly extended to Special Revenue Sharing.

I believe the time has come to further reform our system of providing financial assistance, and to streamline, where we can, the system of grant aid by adopting a system of Special Revenue Sharing which provides the benefits of Federal…

I propose that requirements for maintenance of effort be eliminated as a condition for receiving Special Revenue Sharing payments.

Much has been accomplished in combatting these problems, but much remains to be accomplished.

I propose that the requirement for matching funds be eliminated from LEAA grants being converted to Special Revenue Sharing.

I think it is clear that LEAA has assumed a vital and effective role in this area of Federal, State and local concern.

And this program of $500 million, a proposal that the Attorney General will now describe for you, deals directly with that problem.

I am sending to the Congress today the first proposal for special revenue sharing, and it is in the field of law enforcement assistance.

I am recommending that State planning agencies continue to prepare comprehensive statewide law enforcement plans.

We must explore the unknown, not because of what we are going to find or think we are going to find, not because of the uses that we expect to get from space, but because there is something there, something there that we must explore.

American agriculture is, when we consider this huge productive economy of the richest nation in the world, it is in truth our greatest asset.