Richard Nixon

The real test now comes in how this Office of Executive Management and Budget operates.

I urge the people of the United States to observe that week with appropriate ceremonies and activities in their schools and churches, and in other suitable places, to the end that our citizens, whether naturalized or natural-born, may have…

I also designate the period beginning September 17 and ending September 23, 1970, as Constitution Week.

Now, Therefore, I, Richard Nixon, President of the United States of America, direct the appropriate government officials to display the flag of the United States on all government buildings on Citizenship Day, September 17, 1970.

I also request the people of the United States to observe Flag Day, June 14, and Flag Week by flying the Stars and Stripes at their homes and other suitable places.

We are prepared not only to help with what Peru may need today, but also to aid in the long and arduous task of rebuilding an entire region of that nation.

The people of the United States stand ready with the peoples of all the American nations to respond to the requests of our sister Republic of Peru in this time of its great need.

I urge the communications media to participate in and to promote this observance.

Leave a little time for me, too, will you, Elliot.

I regret losing him at HEW, but I need him here.

His duties will be general.

I am announcing today the first change in our Cabinet.

I reminded Secretary Rogers that he had been through that because he, as you know, was Deputy Attorney General and went from Deputy Attorney General to Attorney General.

That concludes my statement.

There is nothing that is small where the United States is concerned.

Today I am establishing a National Council on Organized Crime, under the chairmanship of the Attorney General, to formulate an effective, coordinated national strategy for the elimination of organized crime.

This approach to the population problem--both in the formulation of my proposal and the support demonstrated by the Congress--has been clearly bipartisan.

Therefore, I should hope that the Senate would also adopt an amendment supporting the Nixon doctrine of American material and technical assistance toward self-help.

I very much expect that several in this room will enter public life.

But we can begin that process which will, I trust, leave a world, when you come on the scene, come on the scene as active participants in your communities, your States and your Nation, whether in political life or in private life, that…

I simply congratulate you for being selected.

I wish the Council and its distinguished and able membership an early success.

You are very fortunate to be born and to be living in the United States of America, because what you do, the life you live does matter, because the United States does matter and that it what really counts.

I don't want to sound Pollyannaish.

Everything you do really matters, because when any part of our country is isolated, when any part of it is torn apart, when there is hatred in any part of the country or prejudice, it hurts the whole country.