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.
Richard Nixon
The Public Record
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.
We know that it was the sacrifice and efforts of hard-working people that built America.
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.
The new American majority knows that government ought to spring from the people.
It will raise crop value for American farmers by a billion dollars in 1972 alone.
We must use it as an opportunity to better the human condition, to lift up the hearts and the hopes of all mankind.
We will be prepared to take bold action with our European partners for a more equitable and open world economic order.
Transforming the whole complex of their relations into a European Union by the end of the present decade
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.
I will not be satisfied until farmers have the rewards, the satisfaction, and the income they so richly have earned.
American agriculture leads our own economy and the world in productivity.
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
For this reason I particularly welcome the Community's declared intent to maintain a constructive, forthcoming dialogue with us
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.
It is, and has always been, my own deeply held view that progress toward a unified Europe enhances world peace, security, and prosperity.
The United States will approach forthcoming negotiations on monetary and trade reform.
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.
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.
I want a generation of peace, and beyond that, another generation of peace.
One of my earliest recommendations was for more effective Federal laws in the area of coal mine health and safety.
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.
It is important that the Russian people and the American people not be enemies.





