European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday january 21, 1969 text of inaugural address simple things Are the ones Washington a to text of president Nixon s inaugural address or. Chief Justice pres Den Johnson my fellow citizens of the world Community i ask you to share with me to Day the majesty of this moment in the orderly Transfer of Power we celebrate the Unity that keeps us moment in history is fleeting time precious a n unique. But some stand out As moments of beginning in which courses Are set that shape dec Ades or can be such a moment. Forces now Are converging that make possible for the first time the Hope that Many of Man deepest aspirations can at last be spiralling Pace of change allows us to contemplate within our own lifetime advances that once would have taken throwing wide the horizons of space we have discovered new horizons on Earth. For the first time because the people of the world want peace and the leaders Are afraid of War the times Are on the Side of peace. 200th birthday near eight years from now Ameri Ca will celebrate its 200th anniversary As a nation. Within the lifetime of most people now Liv ing Mankind will celebrate that great new year which comes Only once in a thousand years the beginning of the third millennium. What kind of a nation we willbe what kind of a world we live in whether we shape the future in the image of our Hopes is ours to determine by our actions Ardour choices. The greatest Honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker. This Honor now Becko Samerica the Chance to help the world out of the Valley of tur Moil and onto that High ground of peace Man has dreamed of since the Dawn of civilization. If we succeed generations to come will say of us now living that we mastered our moment that we helped make the world Safe for is our summons to great Ness. I believe the american people Are ready to answer this Call. Proud achievement the second third of this Cen Tury has been a time of proud achievement. We have mad enormous strides in science Anc Industry and agriculture. Behave shared our wealth More broadly than Ever and Lea Necat last to manage a modern Economy to assure its continue growth. We have Given Freedom new reach and we have begun to make its Promise real for Blacks Well As for while. We see the Hope of tomorrow in the youth of today. I know America s youth. I believe i them. We can be proud that they Are better educated More committed More passionately driven by conscience than any Genera Tion that has gone before. No people has Ever been so close to the achievement of a just and abundant society or so possessed of the will to achieve our strengths Are so great we can afford to appraise our weaknesses with Candor and to approach them with in this same Jalace a third of a Century ago Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed a nation ravaged by depression an gripped by fear. He could say in surveying the nation s troubles they concern thank god Only material things our crisis today is the reverse. We have found ourselves Richin goods but ragged in spirit reaching with magnificent precision for the Moon but falling into raucous discord Here Onearth. We Are caught in War wanting peace. We Are tort by division wanting Unity. We see around us empty lives wanting fulfilment we see tasks that need doing waiting for hands to do them. To a crisis of the spirit wended an answer of the. Spirit. To find that answer we need Only look whet wrists of the Bett Rangels of our mature Whf fed that they celebrate the simple things and the As Jcj things such As goodness decency love kindness. Greatness comes in simple trappings. " the simple things Are the one most needed today if we Are to surmount what divides us and Cement what unites us. To lower our voices would Bea simple thing. In these difficult years Ameri Ca has suffered from a fever of words from inflated rhetoric that promises moire than it can possibly deliver from angry rhetoric that fans discontents into hatreds from bombastic rhetoric that postures instead of Persuad ing strive to listen we cannot learn from one an other until we Stop shouting at one another until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard As Well As our voices. For its part government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways to the voices of quiet anguish the voices that speak without words the voices of the heart to the injured voices the anxious voices the voices that have despaired of being heard. Those who have been left out we will try to bring in. Those left behind we will Hel to catch up. For All of our people we Willet As our goal the decent order that makes Progress possible and our lives secure. As we reach toward our Hopes our task is to build on what has gone before not turning away from the old but Woff tag toward the hew. 111 this past third of a Century government has passed More Laws spent More Money initiated More programs than in All our previous history. In pursuing our goals of full employment better housing excellence in education in rebuild ing out cities and improving our Rural areas in protecting our environment and enhancing the Quality of life in All these anymore we will press urgently Forward. Urgent Home needs we shall plan now for the Day when our wealth can be transferred from the destruction of War abroad to the urgent needs of our people at american dream does not come to those who fall we Are approaching the Liin its of what government alone Cando. Our greatest need now is to reach beyond government to in list the legions of the concerned and the committed. What has to be done has Tobe done by government and peo ple together or it will not be do neat All the lesson of past agony is that without the people we Cando nothing with the people we can do to match the magnitude of our tasks we need the energies of our people enlisted not Only n grand enterprises but More importantly in those Small splendid efforts that make headlines the neighbourhood newspaper instead of the National these we can build a great Cathedral of the spirit each of us raising it one Stone it a time As he reaches outto his neighbor helping caring do not offer a life of uninspiring ease. I do not Call for a life grim sacrifice. I ask you to loin in a High adventure Oneas Rich As humanity itself and exciting As the times we live essence of Freedom is that each of us shares in the shaping of his own destiny. N until he 1tascause larger than Man is truly Way to fulfilment is use of our talents we a nobility in the spirit that 1 that we measure what can in done Promise Only whale know we can produce but As we Chart our goals we Shal be lifted by our dreams. No Man can be fully fee while his neighbor is not. Ito go for Ward at All is to go Forward to Gether. This Means Black and Whit together As one nation not two. The Laws have caught up with Bur conscience. What remains is to give life to what is i the Law to ensure at last that As All Are bom equal in born equal in Ore. Man. Learn to go Forward to Gether at Home let us also see to go Forward together with All Mankind. 5let us take As our goal where peace is unknown make it Wel come where peace is fragile make it Strong where peace i temporary make it permanent. After a period of confrontation we Are entering an Era of negotiation. Seek open world let All nations know that Dur ing this administration our lines of communication will be seek an open world open to ideas open to the Exchange of goods and people a world n which no people great 0small, will live in angry we cannot expect everyone our Friend but we can try to make no one our who would be our adversaries let us invite to a peace us Competition not in conquer no territory or extending , but in enriching the life of Man. As we explore the reaches of space let us go to the new worlds together not As new worlds Tobe conquered but As a new adventure to be those who Are willing to oin. Let us cooperate to reduce he Burden of arms to strengthen the Structure of peace to lift up the poor and the hungry but to All who would be temptedit9s a Day for rejoicing9 is elsenhower9s comment Washington up freight years Richard m. Nixon served As d Wight d. Eisen Hower s vice president. Eisen Hower said monday that Nixon inauguration As president was a Day for rejoicing because it Isa Clear Promise that our Faith in him will be vindicated our prayers for America in a statement issued frompa., Home is conv Alesc decent respect for constitutional government. He has a Wisdom that i rooted in a conviction that our Way is a Way of partnership for the advancement of our secular enterprises a Way of brotherhood for the achievement of our spiritual ideals. To Many millions of Ameri cans including myself his his Gettysburg Eisenhower wooing in Walter Reed Hospital pc. In. Cited Nixon s concern exper inaugural is a Day for rejoicing ,. Because it is a Clear Promise that our Faith in him will be vindicated our prayers for America answered. Hence insight respect an Wisdom. Writing almost in free verse style Eisenhower said of Nixon Richard Nixon is now the37th president of the United states. To the demanding responsibilities of the office he brings a deep concern for All o. People vast experience in Public affairs profound insight into the processes of our system now the has 3 members Washington Aplyn Don b. Johnson became eligible monday for one of the world most exclusive clubs. The other members Are harrys. Truman and Dwight d. Eisen Hower. But beyond president Nixon himself " beyond us who have Bee Long his friends and supporters the nature of the next fou years is in the bands of All our longer Are we partisans in a presidential Campaign. Now we Are americans together. And so As one grown 014. In the service of the Republic As one most generously helped All those years by his fellow citizens i presume to express personal thought today it is let us never lose sight four Basic purposes As a nation thus expressed by the founding fathers " to establish Justice insure Domestic Tranquility provide for the common defense promote the general welfare and the blessings of Liberty to ourselves Ana our posterity if in All seasons we cherish these purposes with divine help we most certainly shall go Forward by weakness doubt that we As we need to be for As Long Ashe need to be. Over the past 20year. I have visited most of the nations of the world. I have come to know the lend ers of the world and the great forces and the Noel it fears an hatreds that Fol Vlad tit world. I know that peace does no come through Nishit Oglor it that there is no substitute for Day Sand even years of patient and i also know the people of the a Tell 1 a v the and the heart of my country the deep concern we have for those no suffer and those who Sor accent on peace 1 have taken an Bath today inthe presence Al god and my countrymen. To that oath i add this sacred commitment i shall consecrate my office Iny ener is and All the Wisdom i can summon to the peace among nations. Let this message be heard by Strong and weak alike the peace we seek to win snot Victory Over any other peo ple., but the peace that comes with Healing in its wings with compassion for those who have suffered with understanding for those who have opposed us wit the Opportunity for All the peo Ples of this Earth to choose their own destiny. Only a few Short weeks ago we snared the glory of Man s first sight of the world As go sees it As a single sphere reflecting Light in the the Apollo astronauts flew Over the Moon s Gray surface on Christmas eve they spoke to us of the Beauty of the Erth and that voice so Clear across the Unar distance we heard the invoke god s Blessing on its Good Ness. Truly Brothers in that moment their View rom the Moon moved poet Archi Ald Macleish to write to seethe Earth As it truly is Small and Blue and Beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats is to see ourselves As riders on the Eartho Gether Brothers on that Bright Oveline in the eternal cold rothers who know they Are truly that moment of surpassing technological Triumph menu Ned their thoughts toward lome and humanity seeing i that far perspective that Man s destiny on Earth is not divisible filling us that however far we each into the Cosmos our Des tiny lies not in the stars but Here on Earth itself in our own handstand our own hearts. We have endured a Long nigh of the american spirit. But As our eyes catch the dimness of theirs rays of Dawn let us not curse the remaining dark let us father the Light. Our destiny of ers not the cup of despair Buthe chalice of Opportunity. So let us Seise it not in fear but in madness and riders in the Earth together let m go for Ward firm in our Faith Stead ast in our purpose cautious of the dangers but sustained by our Confidence in the will of Godard the Promise of Man
