Starting immediately, the Congressman will receive the daily intelligence briefings--this is what I have in my hand here--and will participate in meetings of the National Security Council, meetings of the Cabinet, and other meetings that the Vice President would participate in once he is confirmed.

I, Richard Nixon, President of the United States of America, do hereby urge the people of the United States to observe the week of October 14, 1973, as National School Lunch Week and to give special and deserved recognition to the role of good nutrition in building a strong America through strong American youth.

And above all, he is a man who, if the responsibilities of the great office that I hold should fall upon him, as has been the case with eight Vice Presidents in our history, we could all say, the leadership of America is in good hands.

This is a time for a new beginning for America, a new beginning in which we all dedicate ourselves to the tasks of meeting the challenges we face, seizing the opportunities for greatness, and meeting the dangers wherever they are, at home or abroad.

I shall ask the Congress tonight, and also when I submit the name tomorrow, to act as expeditiously as possible on this nomination because of the great challenges we face at home and abroad today.

Thank you and good evening.

It is most appropriate that we set aside a special day to honor the boys and girls who serve as newspaper carriers across our country.

Third, at this particular time when we have the Executive in the hands of one party and the Congress controlled by another party, it is vital that the Vice President of the United States be an individual who can work with members of both parties in the Congress in getting approval for those programs of the Administration which we consider are vital for the national interest.

Second, the individual who serves as Vice President of the United States must be one who shares the views of the President on the critical issues of foreign policy and national defense, which are so important if we are to play our great role, our destined role to keep peace in the world.

First, and above all, the individual who serves as Vice President must be qualified to be President.

It is terribly shortsighted, because when we see it, we find that if we close our markets in order to save jobs here, we are going to lose jobs for those products that otherwise would be sold abroad.

We need those communications, channels of communications which the businessmen, the businesswomen of America open through the areas of trade, and we also need that kind of communication between nations in the trading area which will raise the standard of living throughout the world so that all peoples and all nations will have a stake in the peace of the world.

As the United States increases its trade with those nations, it inevitably will mean that their standard of living will rise, as will ours, and as theirs rises, their people and their governments will have a stake in peace.

I will soon be forwarding to the Congress a request for supplemental appropriations to cover the remainder.

I intend to take every step necessary to achieve that goal.

As additional efforts prove necessary, I shall be prepared to take those steps.

I again urge that it proceed with dispatch.

I am today announcing the details of an additional $115 million increment to this fiscal year's budget for energy research and development.