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Wednesday, November 1, 1972, Radio Address--Urban Affairs
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- Része ennek White House Staff Member and Office Files (Nixon Administration), President's Personal Files
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OCR Page 1 of 48THE PRESIDENT'S READING COPY
RADIO SPEECH - URBAN AFFAIRS
Wednesday, November 1, 1972
Good afternoon.
Today I would like to talk with you about a challenge
which many describe as the 'urban crisis". I prefer to think
of it, however, as the 'urban opportunity. "
When we talk about "the city, " we are not talking about
an impersonal abstraction, but about the needs of real people --
who happen to live more closely together and in larger
concentrations than elsewhere. Our goal must be to improve the
quality of urban life for individual human beings -- to make each
city a vibrant and vital place for people to live in.
In the 1960's, Federal programs for the cities grew
bigger and bigger, but the problems of the cities only grew worse.
Government spending increased at a record pace -- but
so did crime and pollution and inflation and unrest.
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