Richard Nixon

I want you to know how much I appreciate your outstanding work as well as the generous sacrifice of your personal interests which this assignment required.

Especially I deplore the nature of the attacks that have been made upon this distinguished man.

The Nation is fortunate that Clement Haynsworth's ability and judgment will remain available to the judiciary through his continuance as Chief Judge of one of the largest and busiest Appellate Courts in the Nation.

We have resolved the last major issue which came out of World War II, the Okinawa problem.

Your fellow countrymen owe you a debt of gratitude for your efforts in behalf of peace--your contribution has been a great one.

I believe in America, and I think we have to speak up more for America and the strength of America and what it means to us and what it means to the world.

The United States would continue to contribute to the economic development of Asia.

He also reaffirmed the commitment of the United States to the principle of promoting freer trade.

What happens in the United States affects the whole world.

I believe that as we stand here today that in the years ahead, our two Governments and our two peoples will work together toward that great goal which is contained in the slogan of the Expo 1970 in Osaka, 'Harmony and Progress for all…

His integrity is unimpeachable, his ability unquestioned.

America has about it the quality of an idea and is more difficult to describe.

To the extent of not having a teddy bear, my early childhood might be described as disadvantaged.

It is with great regret that I accept your resignation as head of the U.S. Delegation at the Paris Meetings on Vietnam.

I could have asked for no better representative, and will miss your counsel and efforts as we seek to negotiate a just peace in Vietnam.

You have the satisfaction of knowing that you have done all that imagination and dedication to peace could accomplish.

We should not think of Japan as simply a nation of statistics, of economic growth, an economic giant, but we should think of it as it really is.

I said when the Prime Minister arrived, that looking to the future, in the last third of this century, whether peace and freedom survive would depend more on what happened in Asia than in any other section of the world.

This Administration will invoke this authority only in the most compelling circumstances and after a rigorous inquiry into the actual need for its exercise.

Whether Asia and the Pacific becomes an area of peace, as the Pacific literally translated means, or an area of devastation for Asia and the world, will depend upon what happens between the United States and Japan more than between any…

As I think of the people of Japan, as I think of the character that has brought Japan now to the pinnacle of economic power and wealth which it now has,

I reaffirm that policy here.

I look upon this great country not in terms of its richness economically but in terms of a wealth that money cannot buy, of the character and strength and courage of a great people.

Our goal is an open world.

He enjoyed with grace the triumphs of his life, and he endured its tragedies with great dignity.