Richard Nixon

We have learned, first of all, that the process of learning how to learn begins very, very early in the life of the infant child.

It is no longer possible to deny that the process is all too evidently at work in the slums of America's cities, and that is a most ominous aspect of the urban crisis.

America must learn to approach its problems in terms of the time span those problems require.

Our commitment to the first 5 years of life will not show its full results during my administration, nor in that of my successor.

Increasingly we know something about how this can be done.

A national commitment to providing all American children an opportunity for healthful and stimulating development during the first five years of life.

Above all, the process of a child's maturing is one of slow and steady growth that will not be speeded up for all our scientific knowledge.

The effects of prevention are far better than the effects of cure.

There are any number of urban problems that can be dealt with promptly-and should be.

We must remember that we are only beginning to learn what works, and what does not, in this field.

You have been a man of courage and you have captured the imagination of our people because of that courage.

We welcome you, then, today as an old friend.

We look forward to the conversations we will have with you and with members of your Government in attempting to find new avenues that could lead to permanent peace in that troubled area of the world.

There could be no more searing symbol of governmental inability to act than those rubble-strewn lots and desolate, decaying buildings, once a vital part of a community's life and now left to rot.

In order to solve those problems, leadership is required--leadership from within that area.

We welcome you again as one who has visited our country before and we say as you come again that we think you come at a very appropriate time.

The program I announce today is a start, a beginning, to bring aid to the victims of these riots--the vast majority who fought or fled the burning and now must live among its remains.

I have directed Secretary Romney to assemble a program designed to initiate and coordinate prompt Federal, State, local, and private action in as many as possible of these 20 cities.

It is those three qualities that we in this country have seen in you, Your Majesty, through the years.

This is primarily the task of American private enterprise, but government must help to coordinate the effort and offer assistance and encouragement

Building on the solid base of a healthy, noninflationary economy--a base that only the fundamentals of fiscal and monetary restraints now can restore

This is fundamental economics

We seek no restrictions on the American tourist's freedom to travel

Inflation has drawn in a flood of imports while it has diminished our competitiveness in world markets and thus dampened our export expansion

But the time for restoring the basis of our prosperity is long overdue