Richard Nixon

Today, America is no longer coming apart.

One of my highest domestic priorities this year will be the development of new policies that eliminate waste and target aid to genuinely needy families.

Good afternoon, I want to report to you today on the quality of life in our cities and towns.

I, Richard Nixon, President of the United States of America and Honorary Chairman of the American National Red Cross, do hereby designate March 1973 as Red Cross Month, a month when every citizen is asked to join, serve, and contribute.

Helping the Red Cross—the Good Neighbor—continue its wide range of assistance programs is one way in which each of us can help our communities and our country.

I don`t give a bleep what happens. I want you all to stonewall it. Let them plead the Fifth amendment. If it will save it, save the plan, that`s the whole point.

What is done on the voluntary side, which you represent here today, is equally important.

The United States is emphasizing its strong feeling that the perpetrators of this crime must be brought to justice.

We expect that to be adhered to, and when that is adhered to, we believe that the chances for peace in Laos will be very considerable, and considerably more than after the '54 accords.

It will come out of the national security budget, which means the area of foreign assistance and defense both.

First, with regard to family assistance, I thought at the time that I approved it--and this view has not changed--that it was the best solution to what I have termed, and many others have termed before me, the welfare mess.

I have one announcement for those who are members of the traveling press.

I noted in my talking papers that I was to mention the fact that I should accept it because, and make note of the fact that, this Administration has committed approximately $100 million to research in the field of heart disease and the…

Normally invitations go out, as you know, about 3 to 4 weeks in advance, and because we want to be sure that for our distinguished guests we have all of the places filled, we usually send 20 more invitations than the 110 that this room…

I would not suggest that it is easy.

I would not suggest that it will be soon or instant.

He leaves Washington on his 51st birthday, which is tonight, as one of the most respected and able ambassadors ever to serve in the Washington Capital—as a matter of fact, if you want to give up your citizenship, we have a job for you.

I don't know of a dinner we have had, Madam Prime Minister, in this house since we have had the honor of being here, in which more people wanted to come and in which we could make fewer friends and more enemies than we did by inviting the…

On February 1, 1972, I issued Executive Order No. 11642, exempting A. Everette MacIntyre, a member of the Federal Trade Commission, from compulsory retirement for age, under the provisions of section 8335 of title 5, United States Code…

Now, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by subsection (c) of section 8335 of title 5, United States Code, I hereby exempt A. Everette MacIntyre from compulsory retirement for age until February 28, 1974.

I direct all appropriate agencies of the Federal Government to participate actively in programs designed to promote maximum protection of our people against accidental poisonings, particularly among children.

A system which penalizes a person for going to work and rewards a person for going on welfare is totally alien to the American tradition of self-reliance and self-respect.

No boy or girl should be denied a quality education.

After more than 10 years of war, we have successfully completed one of the most unselfish missions ever undertaken by one nation in the defense of another.

No American family should be denied good health care because of inability to pay.