Richard Nixon

Let us suppose that we had not had the United Nations. How many more problems and how many more crises would we have had?

My life on earth is finished, but I am content.

Joining Mrs. Nixon, we express our appreciation to the Adams family, one of the really great American families, for their generosity.

When I told the little story about Wilbur Mills, I am not suggesting what office you should seek and at what time.

But the world will be safer; the world will be a better place in which to live because of what dedicated men like George Bush do at the United Nations.

Mrs. Nixon and I will join them in the Grand Hall to receive you, for those who have the time to do so.

He also had a capacity to express himself perhaps not so well in speeches--and maybe two speeches in 4 years is enough for any President, may I say--but an extraordinary capacity to express himself sometimes in bits of poetry.

Let the record show this is the first time my wife has ever introduced me, and I am very, happy.

That Adams legacy is something we all could well remember today, and for that and many other reasons we are proud to have in this house, which belongs to all of the American people, our house as we often describe it which means yours and…

A man who negotiated many treaties-as Dr. Oliver has pointed out, the one ending the war in 1812--and one, and this little historical note should be added, who served as Secretary of State in President Monroe's Administration.

Now, I don't know whether Chairman Mills was suggesting that defeat, therefore, was good for George Bush and that his future may be somewhat like William McKinley's.

As a student of history I was fascinated, as I am sure all of you were, by the remarks of John Quincy Adams and also of Dr. Oliver.

Here was a man who was in Moscow at the time that Napoleon's armies came through Russia and finally were turned back not so much by the Russian armies, but by the weather.

After hearing their remarks there is so very little that I can add because, as I was running mentally through my own mind what I planned to say, they ticked off virtually everything that John Quincy Adams had done during his life.

For that reason, at this time I am very proud to present him for the purpose of having him sworn in in this position, to wish him well, and to say on this occasion that the United Nations, the organization to which he will be accredited…

To end a war in a way that will not bring on another war is far from simple.

I hereby transmit to The Congress the second annual Presidential review of United States foreign policy.

Our decision to clean out the sanctuaries in Cambodia saved thousands of American lives.

I believe the President has an obligation to lay before the American people and its Congress the basic premises of his policy and to report fully on the issues, developments, and prospects confronting the Nation.

We shall maintain our commitments, but we will make sure our own troop levels or any financial support to other nations is appropriate to current threats and needs.

Peace can only be built by the willing hands--and minds-of all.

In a democracy, policy is the public's business.

The policy of the United States will continue to be to promote peace talks-not to try to impose a peace from the outside.

We know we must act as one world in restoring the world's environment, before pollution of the seas and skies overwhelms every nation.

This year my message will be supplemented by two major documents: the Secretary of State's review--the first of its kind--and the annual Defense Report by the Secretary of Defense.