Richard Nixon

We believe that the tax exemption privilege is an inefficient and wasteful means of providing financial assistance and wherever possible have proposed the substitution of taxable financing for tax-exempt financing.

In the case of the Hopi Tribe, the passage of this act will enable them to move ahead with their development plan and I approve it for this reason.

I urge the Senate to approve this legislation, which is both fiscally sound and urgently needed to help the elderly and the disabled and their dependents make ends meet.

Successfully desegregating the nation's schools requires more than the enforcement of laws. It also requires an investment of money.

This legislation is a first major step in that essential direction.

In a number of communities, experiments are already under way or being planned with a variety of interracial learning experiences.

It is concerned not with the long range, broad gauge needs of the educational system as a whole, but rather with these special and immediate needs.

This Act is addressed both to helping overcome the adverse effects of racial isolation, and to helping attain the positive benefits of integrated education.

The educational effects of racial isolation, however, are not confined to those districts that previously operated dual systems.

We honor them most by remembering what it was they died for—not for glory, not for conquest, but for those concepts that bind a people together in nationhood—and brotherhood.

He has served with seven Presidents of the United States, and with each, on the great issues involving the security and safety of the United States, unfailingly John McCormack has put country above party--the national good above self.

We must, therefore, as individuals and as a nation, continue the difficult quest for tranquility among all peoples and the reasoned solution of our differences.

I regard this as not simply proof of his exceptional leadership qualities; it is proof as well of his compassionate spirit, his undeviating integrity, and his eagerness to be helpful to everyone, whether in his district and State or his…

John McCormack is one of the finest public servants I have ever known.

Every person in this country has an immense debt to him for his statesmanship and patriotism.

I FEEL profoundly and very personally touched by the unexpected news of Speaker McCormack's retirement from Congress at the end of his present term.

The Speaker's announcement today will give a special poignancy to this luncheon, and there I shall join his senior colleagues and some of his host of personal friends in saluting this truly great American.

A more fitting memorial would be the creation of a peaceful world, free of the destructive conflicts that have plagued man's history.

So deeply do I hold these views that I had scheduled a luncheon in honor of Speaker McCormack on May 27 well before I had heard of his intended retirement.

He has been Speaker of the House of Representatives for a longer consecutive period than any Speaker in the entire history of our country.

I urge the press, radio, television and all other information media to cooperate in this observance.

In Witness Whereof,I have hereunto set my hand this twentieth day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventy, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the one hundred ninety-fourth.

It is a momentous turn of events, not only for Congress, but also for our country.

In my White House years as Vice President, as also in the past 14 months as President, I have time and time again had occasion to be thankful for our country's sake that John McCormack was Speaker of the House.

Few men in my acquaintance over many years of public service have held as faithfully to the patriot's concept that our country comes first.