Richard Nixon

We must harmonize highway transportation with our environment so that we can more fully enjoy the blessings of nature and the works of man.

Within this framework I hope all Americans will continue to appreciate and analyze, soberly and realistically, the benefits they and all peoples gain from international cooperation—within the United Nations and other institutions—to meet…

All of us must do our very best to prevent highway accidents, reducing the unacceptable price we pay each day in death and suffering on our roadways.

I urge the citizens of this Nation to observe that day with community programs which will promote understanding and support for the United Nations and its affiliated agencies.

Only by meeting these challenges today can we continue to enjoy the full benefits of our highway system tomorrow.

There would be no progress without the full-hearted support of an intelligent, energetic labor force.

They have not failed us before and they will not fail us now.

I urge the Congress to support this action, not because it is politically expedient or the easy thing to do, but because it is in the best interest of all Americans.

On Labor Day we pay tribute to the working men and women to whom America owes so much.

We must not fall victim to complacency.

He represented the best in American films, and the best in America.

It is in this spirit, and with the knowledge that the action I am taking will help to hold down the cost of living for all Americans, that I now recommend a sixty day deferral in the pending pay adjustment for Federal employees.

I regret asking for this postponement of a Federal pay increase but there can be no doubt of its necessity.

In our free society--more than anywhere else on earth--the laborer can enjoy the results of his labor.

I am directing that the United States begin now in helping with the rehabilitation and recovery of Pakistan to assure prompt and effective action for immediate relief and for our contribution to an early recovery.

Pakistan needs help, and I know its friends in the international community will respond generously.

I have directed that 100,000 metric tons of U.S. wheat be made available to the people of Pakistan to provide some immediate relief before their next harvest.

India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh have demonstrated both their willingness and their ability to work out problems on their own.

We have not yet seen the text of the reported agreement, so we cannot comment in detail.

The United States welcomes this most recent and heartening forward step which strengthens the prospects for a new era of peace, stability, and cooperation in the Subcontinent.

I shall nominate and send to the Senate for confirmation the name of Dr. Henry Kissinger.

No; the answer to the third question is that it is true that as far as the capacity to govern is concerned, that to be under a constant barrage--12 to 15 minutes a night on each of the three major networks for 4 months--tends to raise some…

I asked him to listen to it in order to be sure that as far as any allegations that had been made by Mr. Dean with regard to that conversation is concerned, I wanted to be sure that we were absolutely correct in our response.

And now, we will go to the questions.

No, as far as my defense is concerned, I make it myself.