Richard Nixon

If Congress believes that price and wage controls are needed in today's economy, despite all the evident disadvantages and against my strong recommendations, it should face up to its responsibilities and make such controls mandatory.

This is an unnecessary and undesirable restriction which should be promptly repealed.

This is a good city and it is a warm and friendly, hospitable city.

Mrs. Nixon and I want to express our great appreciation to all of you for this wonderfully warm welcome.

We are going to carry out the law in that way, not in a punitive way.

And so to all of them who have supported us from this State, we are grateful; to those of you in this State who have given support to us on those great international issues that are bigger than parties, because they are as big as this…

We believe, all of us, in law and order and justice.

It is this that we have worked for in this administration.

I also want you to know that this is the 25th State that I have visited since becoming President of the United States.

I rejected that approach from the beginning.

But I want to say this: that when I look at the record of the members of the delegation from the State of Louisiana, whether they be in the House or the Senate, that when it comes to the great issue of building a strong United States and…

I was in New York with my wife in Times Square.

It is a national problem.

And I think all of us today, if we had one great thought on our mind, it is to bring peace, but a peace that will last, and that is what we are working for in Washington.

This problem of race relations and particularly with regard to segregation in our schools is not a sectional problem.

And over these past 18 months, it is a great experience for me to go to America.

It was encouraging to see this kind of leadership come.

And I shall meet that responsibility.

We are trying to take some preventive action and we are getting magnificent cooperation.

And now it is right here in Washington, D.C. [New Orleans, Louisiana].

One theme that every one of the participants in this meeting, the Chairmen and Vice Chairmen, white and black, participating, constantly came back to was quality education.

The highest court of the land has spoken.

I find that we tend to think too much sectionally, that what really happens is that those of us in Washington sometimes become isolated from the rest of the country.

It is in the best interests of the United States to assume these obligations toward the Latin American countries bound by the Treaty.

Ratification by the United States of Additional Protocol II would not only indicate our support for the Latin American nuclear-free zone but would reinforce our other arms control efforts such as the Non-Proliferation Treaty.