Richard Nixon

Let us cooperate in our exploration of outer space.

This reversal of the normal Public Buildings Act procedure is found by the Attorney General to be an unconstitutional 'coming into agreement' provision.

Let us have peaceful competition not only in producing the best factories but in producing better lives for our people.

Let our aim be not victory over other peoples but the victory of all mankind over hunger, want, misery, and disease, wherever it exists in the world.

As great powers, we shall sometimes be competitors, but we need never be enemies.

No nation that does not threaten its neighbors has anything to fear from the United States.

I must comment briefly on one provision in the bill which I am advised by the Attorney General is an unconstitutional 'coming into agreement' clause, infringing on the fundamental principle of the separation of legislative and executive…

Accordingly, I will submit a budget amendment to the Congress to eliminate the unconstitutional problem.

Our purpose in the Soviet Union is to open a new era of negotiation and cooperation between our two great powers.

As we leave your city later this afternoon, each of us will carry away a special memory.

We will remember the spectacular beauty of this city, a city that refused to die and came back after destruction more beautiful than ever before.

We realize that this visit is very brief and we only regret that we don't have more time to spend here in this great city.

My glass today will be raised with yours not only to our distinguished Chairman of the Presidium, not only to your mayor and to the other distinguished officials, but to Tanya, who stands for the heroism of a great city.

We will remember the dynamism and the strength of the people of Leningrad.

I would like to share with you one memory I will take with me for the rest of my life.

All will remember this splendid banquet, the delightful music, the new friendships that we have made with our Soviet friends.

The Soviet people and the American people demonstrated over 25 years ago how they could fight together to win a war.

Tonight at 11 o'clock there will be signed an historic agreement between the Soviet Union and the United States.

We want to be remembered by our deeds, not by the fact that we brought war to the word, but by the fact that we made the world a more peaceful one for all peoples in the world.

It is an enormously important agreement, but again it is only an indication of what can happen in the future as we work toward peace in the world.

Every leader of a nation wonders at times how he will be remembered in history.

We look forward to the time when we shall be able to welcome you in our country and in some way respond in an effective manner to the way in which you have received us so generously in your country.

Following the dinner, the President and General Secretary Brezhnev signed a treaty and an interim agreement on the limitation of strategic arms in a televised ceremony in St. Vladimir Hall in the Grand Kremlin Palace.

After discussions on trade matters, a communiqué as issued on an agreement between Soviet leaders and President Nixon to establish a U.S.-U.S.S.R. Commercial Commission.

The tasks ahead will not be easy, but surely if we could rebuild from the ashes of war, we can succeed now in rebuilding a new era of growth and prosperity in the service of peace.