Richard Nixon

. . . the Federal Government needs Indian energies and Indian leadership if its assistance is to be effective in improving the conditions of Indian life.

[We] have turned from the question of whether the Federal Government has a responsibility to Indians to the question of how that responsibility can best be fulfilled.

The first Americans, the Indians, are the most deprived and most isolated minority group in our nation on virtually every scale of measurement; unemployment, income, education, health-the condition of Indian people ranks at the bottom.

The time has come to break decisively with the past and to create the conditions for a new era in which the Indian future is determined by Indian acts and Indian decisions.

Termination implies that the Federal government has taken on a trusteeship responsibility for Indian communities as an act of generosity toward a disadvantaged people and that it can therefore discontinue this responsibility on a…

It is a new and balanced relationship between the United States government and the first Americans that is at the heart of our approach to Indian problems.

Our Government, the United States Government, is hopeful that its policies will be cooperative with the wishes and desires of the governments of all the people in the hemisphere.

We think, however, that Cap Weinberger, as he is known to all of his many friends who are here in this State, has demonstrated, not only in the State government but has demonstrated in his excellent handling of the Federal Trade Commission…

Each of us can reduce this waste simply by eliminating fire-producing conditions and by being alert and careful in handling fire.

All outstanding delegations, rules, regulations, orders, circulars, bulletins, or other forms of Executive or administrative action shall, until amended or revoked, remain in full force and effect as if issued or taken by or relating to…

To be successful this policy requires the striking of a careful balance—whether in South Vietnam or elsewhere in Asia.

I want to thank you families, too.

This is an occasion that is very meaningful to the families that are here of those who will be sworn in, and particularly meaningful to the White House family and the administration family.

We think of what that public land will be, what it will contribute to the future generations who will be living in America in the years ahead.

It will provide for us a great deal of very helpful information and, also, recommendations, many of which, of course, will be accepted and we trust implemented.

It is a special bit of public land that belongs to all of us.

I think this will be noted, after 5 years, as being one of the most extensive, perhaps the most extensive study of this subject in the history of the Republic.

It is essential to plan now for the use of that land, not to do it on simply a case-by-case basis but to have an overall policy, a strategy rather than simply the tactics dealing with case-by-case matters when they come up.

In these times there is no room in this massive program--or in any other program--for the kind of needless and misdirected spending represented in H.R. 11102.

It would add the new program of guaranteed loans on top of an expanded program of grants for construction and modernization of medical facilities.

This bill authorizes grants totalling $402 million in 1971; $422 million in 1972 and $437 million in 1973.

One of the most unacceptable provisions of the bill is in Section 601.

Given these factors, I proposed in April, 1969, that the medical facilities construction program be redirected.

H.R. 11102 avoids facing up to the choice that has to be made.

H.R. 11102 is a long step down the road of fiscal irresponsibility, and we should not take that road.