Richard Nixon

The Postmaster General has such a plan.

Many of our citizens feel that today's service does not meet today's needs, much less the needs of tomorrow.

I would not request this legislation without also presenting a plan which insures that the new selection process will be effectively and impartially administered.

Adoption of this proposal by the Congress would assure all of the American people--and particularly the more than 750,000 dedicated men and women who work in the postal service--that future appointments and promotions in this important…

It is that sense of history that you have, that sense of history that all of us in our country respect and that we seek to emulate.

I might add that my visit persuaded me of another thing: that NATO is indeed fortunate to have its headquarters here, in so delightful and so cosmopolitan a capital.

I leave Belgium with great regret.

In due course, and with proper preparation, the United States will enter into negotiations with the Soviet Union on a wide range of issues, some of which will affect our European allies.

I believe, as I stand here today, that we can bring about a durable peace in our time.

If our ideals of Atlantic interdependence are to mean anything in practice, it's time we began lecturing our European partners less and listening to them more.

Thus, in its original purpose, NATO has been a resounding success.

I leave more convinced than ever that there at the center of the Western Alliance stands a stout-hearted and illustrious people--worthy descendants of those early Celts who gave Caesar's legions no small amount of trouble.

And no two nations in the world more commonly and more closely share the means of communication than do the United States and the United Kingdom.

I urge that we now direct our attention to the future and at least through fiscal year 1970.

I believe that the Congress should now enact a debt limit which will serve the needs of our Nation both for the balance of this fiscal year and for the foreseeable future.

The purpose of this visit, as you have so very accurately indicated, is to discuss our common problems, but beyond that, to discuss the problems of the alliance of which we are a part.

My talks with President Rey and the Commission of the European Communities have strengthened my convictions as to the high purpose and indispensability of European economic integration.

This has been much too short a visit, from my standpoint, but a very pleasant and a very productive one.

I must ask the Congress to revise the debt limit before mid-April.

I look forward with great pleasure to the prospect of working in the coming years with Your Majesty, with your government, and with the Belgian people, as together we press toward that peace with justice we all so earnestly seek.

The peoples of our two countries have shared many things.

I am especially pleased, therefore, that my own first trip abroad as President begins in your country.

And as I leave I know that this trip is one which has created a great deal of interest, both in the United States and Europe.

Your Majesty, as I stand here I feel that I stand on hallowed ground for millions of Americans, as well as Belgians.

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