Richard Nixon

The proposed legislation would empower the President to do this in drawing up his consolidation plans--but only within carefully defined limits.

The measure of a government's performance is not only its capacity to deliver services to its citizens, but also its capacity to inspire them to contribute their own efforts.

Thus, if a program providing for a 10 percent State matching share were being merged with one providing a 20 percent matching share, he would have to propose a matching share between 10 and 20 percent.

One of the chief aims of this new effort will be to make answers readily available.

America's religious leaders guard more than just the sacred tenets of the faith they preach.

If these programs are to achieve their intended purposes, we must find new ways of cutting through the tangle.

And you are accompanied in your noble mission by our prayers and those of all men of goodwill.

People can reach where government cannot; people can do what government cannot.

We wholeheartedly agree with your statement that our moral position in the world reflects our devotion to these fundamental principles.

Under no circumstances should they be given control of the colleges and the universities.

When we find a good teacher--and there are thousands of them, hundreds of thousands of them around this country--when we find them doing a dedicated job, isn't it really time that we provide for them the backing?

It is time for faculties, boards of trustees, and school administrators to have the backbone to stand up against that kind of lawlessness in our society.

Our government and, I am confident, our people remain committed to continuing action for human rights.

I do not have that lack of faith that some seem to have.

Your concern that Americans speak as one when they seek to promote the cause of human rights is fully shared by this Administration.

Now, Duke Ellington is ageless, but would you all stand and sing 'Happy Birthday' to him.

And the word 'freedom' is one, coincidentally, that we are using at the moment in our sacred concert.

Never before has a Duke been toasted.

If I were to pick a time and a place in which to live, I would pick the United States of America right today, 1969.

When we think of freedom, we think of many things.

Tonight I ask you all to rise and join me in raising our glasses to the greatest Duke of them all, Duke Ellington.

It should offend the democratic senses of this nation that the 850,000 citizens of its Capital, comprising a population larger than eleven of its states, have no voice in the Congress.

I urge that Congress promptly enact the necessary authorizing legislation for the 97-mile system.

This should be, as it was first proposed, 'an institution of learning that the 22nd Century will regard as having influenced the 21st.'

We in the United States will not forget what you have done for France, both at home and abroad, and for the world, both in war and in peace.