Richard Nixon

This new law will also permit us to improve our post disaster assistance programs by substituting insurance indemnification-speedy, direct, and with minimal red tape--for the current system of disaster loans.

This legislation, which expands and improves the National Flood Insurance Program, will permit us to prepare more adequately against this threat.

In my judgment, the public interest requires that Mr. Mumford be exempted from such mandatory requirement.

Lawrence Quincy Mumford, Librarian of Congress, will, during December, 1973, become subject to mandatory retirement for age under the provisions of section 8335 of title 5 of the United States Code unless exempted therefrom by Executive…

I hereby exempt Lawrence Quincy Mumford from mandatory retirement until December 31, 1974.

I have now determined that Executive Order No. 325A should be replaced with a new Executive order which would permit the employment of non-Federal prison inmates in the performance of Federal contracts under terms and conditions that are…

Expanding the geographic distribution of health maintenance organizations is an integral part of the National Health Strategy that I first proposed nearly 3 years ago.

This order shall be effective as of January 1, 1974.

The establishment of HMO's will allow people to select for themselves either a prepaid system for obtaining health services or the more traditional approach which has served the American people so well over the years.

The national health insurance bill that I will be submitting to the next session of this Congress will allow patients to use such insurance to join HMO's.

The signing of this act marks another milestone in this Administration's national health strategy.

Health maintenance organizations provide health care to their members on a prepaid basis with emphasis on essential preventive services.

We intend to see that such deficiencies are corrected.

It is especially appropriate that this memorial should complement the great work of Mrs. Johnson, who has done so much to make Americans more aware of their natural heritage.

But as we enforce the Life Safety Code, we must also assist nursing home owners in raising the capital needed for essential fire safety modifications.

S. 513, which I sign into law today, will enable the Federal Government to insure mortgage insurance for fire safety equipment in nursing homes and intermediate care facilities not now eligible for such assistance.

Nothing is more priceless and more worthy of preservation than the rich array of animal life with which our country has been blessed.

I AM signing into law today the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973.

I urge early and favorable consideration of these additional amendments.

In a recent nursing home fire in Wayne County, Pa., it was found that a $200 smoke-warning device could have saved 7 of the 11 lives that were lost.

Because of their physical dependence, elderly men and women confined to nursing homes and other long-term care facilities are especially threatened by outbreaks of fire.

In my State of the Union Message 3 years ago, I urged the Congress to join in the enactment of new and more creative approaches to government.

His accomplishments were vibrant and vital and not capable of being conveyed through the hard and definitive constraints of marble or bronze.

It builds on our comprehensive program of nursing home reform which was launched in 1971.

legislation provides the Federal Government with the needed authority to protect an irreplaceable part of our natural heritage--threatened wildlife.