Richard Nixon

There is no priority higher in this administration than to see that children--and the public--learn the facts about drugs in the right way and for the right purpose through education.

I am proud to be here tonight, proud because of this special occasion in Which these young people who have won these awards, the Voice of Democracy Awards, in which they are honored, but proud also because this is the first time, as…

And it is in that spirit that I, as President of the United States and also as a comrade and as a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, am very proud tonight on behalf of your Commander and of this organization to present the…

When the great issues of the defense of America are involved--the security of America, the fate of our men who are fighting for America abroad--when the issues of peace and freedom are involved, when these issues are involved, we are not…

Now, Therefore, I, Richard Nixon,President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week of July 19, 1970 as National Farm Safety Week.

They called it then 'The Spirit of '76' and in just a few years--and all of you will be here, and we hope some of us are too-in 1976, we are going to celebrate the 200th anniversary of America.

I agree with the recommendation of the Director and deem it necessary in the interest of the national security objectives of Proclamation 3279 to establish an orderly limitation on the importation into Districts I-IV of Canadian crude and…

I HAVE just received the report of my Task Force on International Development, chaired by Rudolph Peterson.

The United States has a profound national interest in cooperating with developing countries in their efforts to improve conditions of life in their societies.

I believe its ideas are fresh and exciting.

We should hasten and expand the practical applications of space technology.

We should work to reduce substantially the cost of space operations.

We should seek to extend man's capability to live and work in space.

With these general considerations in mind, I have concluded that our space program should work toward the following specific objectives:

We must also realize that space expenditures must take their proper place within a rigorous system of national priorities.

We must realize that space activities will be a part of our lives for the rest of time.

The security of all Southeast Asia will be endangered if Laos loses its neutral independence.

We will continue to give the American people the fullest possible information on our involvement, consistent with national security.

In the search for peace we stand ready to cooperate in every way with the other countries involved.

Our goal in Laos has been and continues to be to reduce American involvement and not to increase it, to bring peace in accordance with the 1962 accords and not to prolong the war.

As Commander in Chief of our Armed Forces, I consider it my responsibility to use our air power to interdict this flow of supplies and men into South Vietnam and thereby avoid a heavy toll of American and allied lives.

Our air strikes have destroyed weapons and supplies over the past 4 years which would have taken thousands of American lives.

The question is not whether we can afford this legislation, but whether we can afford to go on without it.

This is indeed an historic occasion.

A report on this review and the corrective actions taken or planned...shall be provided to the Council on Environmental Quality not later than September 1, 1970.