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Richard Nixon

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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.

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Oct 27, 1972

This legislation will give us the important powers we need to ensure that the world's whales, porpoises, seals, polar bears, walruses, sea otters, and manatees do not become depleted or endangered species.

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Oct 27, 1972

We know that it was the sacrifice and efforts of hard-working people that built America.

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Oct 27, 1972

I have recently visited the sites of these recreation areas, and it is with particular pleasure that I sign the legislation which officially authorizes their establishment.

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Oct 27, 1972

The new American majority knows that government ought to spring from the people.

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Oct 27, 1972

I want your first vote to be remembered as one of your best votes.

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Oct 26, 1972

It will raise crop value for American farmers by a billion dollars in 1972 alone.

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Oct 26, 1972

We must use it as an opportunity to better the human condition, to lift up the hearts and the hopes of all mankind.

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Oct 26, 1972

We will be prepared to take bold action with our European partners for a more equitable and open world economic order.

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Oct 26, 1972

Transforming the whole complex of their relations into a European Union by the end of the present decade

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Oct 26, 1972

Farm people want to preserve the moral and spiritual values, the religious faith, the patriotism which have always been so unshakably strong on the farms and in the rural communities of America's heartland.

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Oct 26, 1972

I will not be satisfied until farmers have the rewards, the satisfaction, and the income they so richly have earned.

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Oct 26, 1972

American agriculture leads our own economy and the world in productivity.

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Oct 26, 1972

On behalf of the United States, I wish to reaffirm our commitment to work with the members of the European Community for reform of the international economic system

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Oct 26, 1972

For this reason I particularly welcome the Community's declared intent to maintain a constructive, forthcoming dialogue with us

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Oct 26, 1972

We sought an expanding agriculture rather than a shrinking agriculture, a voluntary farm program rather than compulsory controls, a market oriented agriculture rather than a government-dominated agriculture.

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Oct 26, 1972

It is, and has always been, my own deeply held view that progress toward a unified Europe enhances world peace, security, and prosperity.

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Oct 26, 1972

The United States will approach forthcoming negotiations on monetary and trade reform.

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Oct 25, 1972

In the first 9 months of this year, for example, the coal mine fatality rate dropped by approximately 25 percent from the rate for the same period of 1971.

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Oct 25, 1972

I have directed the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to cut all possible red tape so that all eligible miners and dependents start receiving their benefits as soon as possible.

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Oct 25, 1972

I want a generation of peace, and beyond that, another generation of peace.

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Oct 25, 1972

One of my earliest recommendations was for more effective Federal laws in the area of coal mine health and safety.

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Oct 25, 1972

We want something that we haven't had since President Eisenhower was President in 1955 and '56, and that means prosperity, full employment without war and without inflation.

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Oct 25, 1972

It is important that the Russian people and the American people not be enemies.

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