Richard Nixon

I can only hope that the North Vietnamese will not draw the erroneous conclusion from this Congressional action that they are free to launch a military offensive in other areas in Indochina.

The Coast Guard is hereby designated the 'appropriate agency' for the purpose of receiving the notice of discharge of oil or hazardous substances required by subsection (b) (5) of section 311 of the act.

The public interest is generally better served by the free play of competitive forces than by the imposition of rigid and unnecessary regulation.

I have worked ceaselessly to secure an honorable peace in Southeast Asia.

The Federal Maritime Commission is designated and empowered to exercise, without the approval, ratification, or other action of the President, the following.

We will continue to provide all possible support permitted under the law.

The American people would respond to such aggression with appropriate action.

The Council on Environmental Quality is hereby designated and empowered to exercise, without the approval, ratification, or other action of the President, the authority under subsection (c) (2) of section 311 of the act.

My recommendations on restructuring financial institutions represent a coordinated approach to this challenge, and I urge that they be considered as a package.

The Secretary of the Department in which the Coast Guard is operating is hereby designated and empowered to exercise, without the approval, ratification, or other action of the President, the following.

The time to correct those weaknesses has come.

The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency is hereby designated and empowered to exercise, without the approval, ratification, or other action of the President, the following.

I cannot agree to legislation that would deny these patients that opportunity.

I strongly believe the Federal role should be limited to such a demonstration effort, leaving States and communities free to establish the full range of emergency medical services systems that best suit their varying local needs.

By contrast, S. 504 would establish a new Federal grant program which would provide Federal dollars to State and local governments for emergency medical services.

I am returning today without my approval S. 504, the 'Emergency Medical Services Systems Act of 1973'.

I believe all of us must avoid actions of this kind which tend to mislead and therefore disappoint the public.

It is essential that Japan also participate and contribute, not as a subsidiary partner, but as an equal partner.

What really matters is this: After our short time on this great world stage is completed and we leave, what do we leave?

I remember on the visits of your predecessors whom I have welcomed here, we have often spoken of the fact that Japanese-American friendship was the key to peace in the Pacific.

Mr. Prime Minister, this is not the first time that I have welcomed you to the United States of America, but it is the very great honor that all of us have to welcome you for the first time in your capacity as Prime Minister to our…

We can say that Japanese-American friendship and cooperation is essential not only for us to have peace in the Pacific but for us to develop peace and progress in the world.

Japan and America working together, not against anybody else, but working for peace and for progress, for decency, civility.

Truly there is a need today for a communications effort in support of our diplomatic initiatives to build a durable structure of peace in which those who would influence others will do so by the strength of their ideas, not by the force of…

I extend to its staff serving at home and abroad congratulations for a job well done and my best wishes for the future.