Richard Nixon

There is no country in the world when we thought we were in our own home more than Australia.

He has the opportunity to develop new programs and those programs will receive the very highest priority within the administration.

I recommend that the Senate give early and favorable consideration to the Convention and Protocol submitted herewith and give its advice and consent to their ratification.

So we honor that wonderful family relationship.

I understand the Governor's secret, and Mrs. Byrnes told it to me.

India has lost a great statesman.

Never in American history has one man held more high offices with more distinction than Governor Byrnes of South Carolina.

I think, really, the character of this wonderful family is indicated when the Governor said, as we came into the house and wished him happy birthday, that he wanted to make clear that the main purpose of this day was not to celebrate his…

In carrying out his authority under section 1 of this order the Secretary of State shall consult with the Secretary of the Interior.

As grant-in-aid programs have proliferated, the problems of delivery have grown more acute.

One of the principal needs today is to improve the delivery systems: to ensure that the intended services actually reach the intended recipients, and that they do so in an efficient, economical and effective manner.

The number of separate Federal assistance programs has grown enormously over the years.

One of the chief aims of this administration is to help in matching up the willing hands with the tasks that need doing.

Your distinguished decades of religious service--both individually and collectively---equip you well for a dynamic role in our challenging and changing times.

For example:--Only programs in closely related functional areas could be consolidated.

It would give the President power to initiate consolidation of closely related Federal assistance programs, and to place consolidated programs under the jurisdiction of a single agency.

The effect of these limits would be to safeguard the essential intent of Congress in originally establishing the various programs; the effect of consolidation would be to carry out that intent more effectively and more efficiently.

Your fellow countrymen are proud of the international recognition that you have gained for the continuing contributions you make to our society--and to all mankind.

You personify the spirit of human brotherhood and charity that form the cornerstone of peace and understanding among men and nations.

The legislation I propose would be patterned in part after procedures used successfully for the past 20 years to reorganize Executive Branch functions.

More than ever, America needs the enlistment of the energies and resources of its people--not as substitutes for government action, but as supplements to it.

As a major step toward improved administration of these programs, I urge that Congress enact a Grant Consolidation Act.

It would be another vital step in the administrative reforms undertaken already, such as establishing common regional boundaries for Federal agencies, creating the Urban Affairs Council and the Office of Inter-governmental Relations, and…

We will seek to help in every way possible in order that these groups can better realize their larger ambitions for public service.

It would benefit the intended beneficiaries of the programs involved; it would benefit State and local governments, which now have to contend with a bewildering array of rules and jurisdictions; and it would benefit the American taxpayer…