Richard Nixon

We must move on four fronts at once if we are to win the battle against inflation.

The Federal budget is your budget.

Together, the Congress and the Administration have a heavy legislative workload in these remaining months of 1973.

America's greatest resource is its people themselves--you, your family, your neighbors.

The world's hope for peace depends on America's strength.

We have ended America's longest and most difficult war.

We were elected less as Republicans or Democrats than as public officials charged with a public responsibility.

We must now step up our efforts to ensure that this will be a decisive turning point and that we can continue to make our communities safer once again for law-abiding citizens.

For the first time in 16 years, unemployment in peacetime is below 5 percent.

We must check the rise in prices.

For the first time in a generation, no American is being drafted into the Armed Forces.

Secretary Morton pointed out in our meeting this morning that when we think of the energy sources for the United States, that 4 percent, only 4 percent presently in the ground, come from oil, 3 percent potentially from natural gas, and 91…

The prospects for adequate energy for the United States are excellent.

The development of nuclear power for peaceful purposes is to be a major Administration initiative from now on through the balance of our term here.

Short-term we face a problem.

The United States would prefer to continue to import oil, petroleum products from the Mideast, from Venezuela, from Canada, from other countries.

We do not face a crisis in that sense of the word.

All funds, property, records, employees, assets, and obligations of the Souris-Red-Rainy River Basins Commission are, with the concurrence of Governors of the affected States, transferred to the Upper Mississippi River Basin Commission…

The Upper Mississippi River drainage basin is defined as the drainage basin of the Mississippi River above the mouth of the Ohio River, excluding the drainage basin of the Missouri River above a point immediately below the mouth of the…

American life today would be infinitely poorer without these contributions.

It is hereby determined that the jurisdiction of the Upper Mississippi River Basin Commission referred to in Section 1 of this order shall extend to those portions of the States of Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Wisconsin, and North…

The Chairman of the Commission is hereby authorized and directed to refer to the Council any matters under consideration by the Commission which relate to areas of interest or jurisdiction of the International Joint Commission, United…

I call upon all Americans, particularly those in the field of education, to observe that week with appropriate ceremonies and activities.

Americans of Hispanic origin have played an instrumental role in our country's history since the days when America was first opened by European explorers.

The Commission is expected to provide for procedures for consultation with the States of Indiana, Michigan, South Dakota, and Montana on any matter which might affect the water and related land resources of the headwater drainages of the…