We must now step up our efforts to ensure that this will be a decisive turning point and that we can continue to make our communities safer once again for law-abiding citizens.

Together, the Congress and the Administration have a heavy legislative workload in these remaining months of 1973.

We have ended America's longest and most difficult war.

The Federal budget is your budget.

With the Congress, the Administration, and the people working together toward this goal, we can achieve it.

For the first time in a generation, no American is being drafted into the Armed Forces.

For the first time in 16 years, unemployment in peacetime is below 5 percent.

Assuring sufficient energy supplies, now and in the future, is another area of urgent national concern.

The world's hope for peace depends on America's strength.

Secretary Morton pointed out in our meeting this morning that when we think of the energy sources for the United States, that 4 percent, only 4 percent presently in the ground, come from oil, 3 percent potentially from natural gas, and 91 percent from coal.

The United States would prefer to continue to import oil, petroleum products from the Mideast, from Venezuela, from Canada, from other countries.

The prospects for adequate energy for the United States are excellent.

The development of nuclear power for peaceful purposes is to be a major Administration initiative from now on through the balance of our term here.

Short-term we face a problem.

We do not face a crisis in that sense of the word.

I urge all Americans to extend a cordial welcome to the recently arrived immigrants and visitors among us who represent the rich heritage of Hispanic lands.

The Upper Mississippi River drainage basin is defined as the drainage basin of the Mississippi River above the mouth of the Ohio River, excluding the drainage basin of the Missouri River above a point immediately below the mouth of the Gasconade River.

Americans of Hispanic origin have played an instrumental role in our country's history since the days when America was first opened by European explorers.