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Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from January 20, 1969, until his resignation on August 9, 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously held the office of Vice President under Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1961. Nixon's presidency is noted for significant foreign policy achievements, including the historic opening of relations with China and the policy of détente with the Soviet Union. Domestically, he is recognized for establishing the Environmental Protection Agency and implementing various social programs.
If before we have a meeting with the men in the Kremlin, and if before we have negotiations, as we will have this fall with the Communist countries for mutual reduction of forces, we, on our side, reduce our forces, there will be no deal.
Today I am asking for authority from the Congress to sell those items in the stockpile which we no longer need to keep in reserve in order to protect our national security.
The important thing is to fight it out and have an articulate, effective spokesman for your point of view.
Now, Therefore, I, Richard M. Nixon, President of the Unites States of America, in accordance with Senate Joint Resolution 73, do hereby proclaim Monday, April 16, 1973, as 'Jim Thorpe Day' and call upon the people of the United States to…
The reason I don't is this: I have a responsibility as President of the United States to see that Federal spending is kept at a level that does not raise your taxes and that does not raise your prices or does not have the effect of…
By disposing of unneeded items in the strategic stockpile, we can strike a critical blow for the American consumer.
I have always felt that organized labor understood this and that the American workmen and others understood it across this country better than anybody else.
When the chips were down and when the question was respect for the United States, when the question was strength of the United States, that these men, to a man, stood for not party, but what was best for America.
I have just never been as proud to be an American as when those men came back.
After 4 years of confrontation, it is time for an era of negotiation.
There is only one more difficult task than being President of this country when we are waging war, and that is to be President of the Nation when it is waging peace.
It is a privilege to be here at the White House correspondents dinner.
By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 55 (a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939, as amended (26 U.S.C. (1952 Ed.) 55(a)), and by section 6103(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (26 U.S.C. 6103 (a)), it is hereby ordered…
I strongly recommend that the Senate give prompt consideration to this Convention and consent to its ratification.
I am requesting prompt action by the Congress on several reforms in our unemployment insurance system.
When the new Federal benefit standard goes into effect, our unemployment insurance system would begin delivering on its promise to working Americans in a way it has never delivered before.
That is why I am now submitting to the Congress the same benefit reform recommendation that I urged the States to adopt in 1969.
It will be to those who have to go through the tragic problems of cancer, for their families, as your family had to go through, and I don't think the American Cancer Society could have made a better choice.
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