Richard Nixon

This Administration is committed, and I am committed personally, to furthering that result by every means available to us.

There is reason to hope that the lessons learned en route to completion of the world's most modern subway for our National Capital area may also mark the beginning of a new and more effective Federal-local partnership in District of…

The Nation needs the talents and the energies of each and every citizen, and it needs all their votes on election day.

There is no place for apathy in an America facing the momentous challenges and opportunities of the era of the 1970s.

THE Attorney General has just told me that 80 of America's largest cities have actually reduced the number of serious crimes during the first quarter of 1972.

There is no quicker, more effective way of helping the people of these stricken communities to get back on their feet and resume their normal, productive lives.

Together, we can do this.

I will submit a special request for additional emergency funds totaling more than one billion seven hundred million dollars--the largest single amount ever allocated to recovery efforts in this country.

The American public now is fully awake to the social menace of crime, and fully determined that criminals must be defeated if America is to make continued social progress.

The right of all citizens to feel safe on the streets and secure in their homes is fundamental to individual liberty and national progress.

At long last we are pushing back the criminal forces, and now that we are on the one-yard line, I am determined that 1972 be the year we score a victory against the crime rate in America.

On behalf of all Federal authorities, let me assure you that we feel privileged to work with you in this cause and stand ready to assist you to the greatest extent possible.

It is the best news yet on the crime front.

Time is not on our side on any of these fronts.

Once again, I appeal most urgently to the leaders, the committee chairmen, and the individual members of both parties in both Houses to meet their responsibility to the American people and to America's share of the earth by writing such a…

There is still time to write a fine record of environmental achievement this year.

This unprecedented invitation to the world is particularly appropriate for two reasons:

Our Bicentennial Era is a time for America to say to the nations of the world: \You helped to make us what we are.

A second compelling reason for this invitation to the world relates to our hopes for a genuine and lasting peace among nations.

It has enabled us to bear with unfailing honor the responsibility of world leadership in the cause of peace.

First, because America is and always has been a nation of nations.

The automatic increase provision which will allow social security benefits to keep pace with the cost of living.

This provision is one which I have long urged, and I am pleased that the Congress has at last fulfilled a request which I have been making since the first months of my Administration.

I HAVE today signed H.R. 15390, which extends the temporary ceiling on the national debt, and which, among other measures, provides for an across-the-board increase of 20 percent in social security benefits.

I believe the arts can teach us to hear when we listen, to understand when we see, to enjoy when we perform.