Richard Nixon

We have already achieved a great deal at home and abroad.

This is the American foreign policy in a nutshell.

What you have done here and throughout the United States will be long remembered, not only by the President but by all future Presidents for whom you are working.

When we sometimes may feel tired, that we will never be discouraged, and we will always be heartened by the memory of this luncheon that we are having today.

The goal that Americans believe in—devoted, for example, to energy, speaking in the narrow sense, that Secretary Simon has had such great experience in, energy adequate for all people wherever they may be.

Whoever is the American President, be he a Democrat or Republican, in the years ahead to the end of this century—we will not try to look beyond that—but whoever is the American President will hold within his hands the responsibility for…

A strong American Presidency is essential if we are to have peace in the world.

I direct Government officials to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings, and I urge all citizens to display the flag at their homes and other suitable places on that day.

Our very distinguished guest, His Royal Highness Prince Fahd, brought this home to me in our constructive discussions this morning when he said, 'The friendship between Saudi Arabia and the United States goes back many years before we…

For now, when the American continent is no longer an isolated fortress, but instead an integral part of a shrinking and a troubled world, a strong American Navy is an indispensable factor in maintaining global peace and global stability.

The leaders of the Soviet Union will not sacrifice theirs.

It was apparent that the time had come to reassess those responsibilities.

This is the goal to which I have personally pledged this Administration since the first day of my Presidency.

Reduction of tensions, therefore, between us has become the foremost requirement of American foreign policy.

Together with the Congress we recognize this dilemma, but neither branch of Government believes conservation and development are mutually exclusive.

Air quality is improving in most of our urban areas as harmful emissions have been reduced.

I am transmitting the first annual report on the management and conservation of our coastal resources, as required by the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972.

This date was established by the United Nations as a day on which the peoples of the world can undertake activities reaffirming their concern for the preservation and enhancement of the human environment.

By systematically weighing the benefits and the costs of proposed actions, we can provide for both conservation and progress.

Water quality is similarly improving.

As a result, I believe we are able to look forward to rapid progress as the Federal government begins this important task in partnership with State governments.

In the spirit of the New Federalism, this program constitutes a partnership between the States and the Federal government.

I had the pleasure of helping to inaugurate EXPO '74, a six-month long exhibition in Spokane, Washington, dedicated to the improvement of the human environment.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this thirty-first day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and seventy-four, and of the independence of the United States of America the one hundred ninety-eighth.

For their efforts in negotiating this agreement, Sir Christopher Soames, Vice President of the European Communities Commission, and Ambassador William D. Eberle, the U.S. Special Representative for Trade Negotiations, both deserve the…