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President Richard Nixon

President Richard Nixon
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Excerpt from 1970 Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union (January 22, 1970)
The automobile is our worst polluter of the air. Adequate control requires further advances in engine design and fuel composition. We shall intensify our research, set increasingly strict standards, and strengthen enforcement procedures-and we shall do it now.
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Street litter, rundown parking strips and yards, dilapidated fences, broken windows, smoking automobiles, dingy working places, all should be the object of our fresh view.

Article Index

Date	Article	Author/Source
6 May 1971	Statement About Agreements With Panama and Colombia To Complete the Pan American Highway	President Richard Nixon
17 August 1971	Statement About Rescission of Price Increases by Automobile Manufacturers	President Richard Nixon
29 September 1971	Message to the Congress Transmitting Annual Reports on Highway, Traffic, and Motor Vehicle Safety Programs	President Richard Nixon
19 November 1971	Message to the Congress Transmitting Part I of a Two-Part Study on Railroad-Highway Safety.	President Richard Nixon
4 August 1972	Statement About Signing a Bill Providing Emergency Highway Repairs Following Tropical Storm Agnes and the South Dakota Flood	President Richard Nixon
21 October 1972	Statement About Signing the Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Savings Act	President Richard Nixon
13 August 1973	Statement on Signing a Highway and Mass Transit Bill.	President Richard Nixon
30 October 1973	Message to the Congress Transmitting Annual Reports on Highway, Traffic, and Motor Vehicle Safety Programs.	President Richard Nixon
2 January 1974	Statement on Signing the Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act	President Richard Nixon