[John Tower Speech on Shipbuilding Productivity and Profitability given to the Shipbuilders Council of America at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C., July 7, 1972] (open access)

[John Tower Speech on Shipbuilding Productivity and Profitability given to the Shipbuilders Council of America at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C., July 7, 1972]

Speech declaring the importance of naval and merchant ships to U.S. national interests on the seas and arguing against critics that say that the shipbuilding industry is inefficient, costly, and technologically behind other nations.
Date: July 7, 1972
Creator: Tower, John G. (John Goodwin), 1925-1991
System: The Portal to Texas History
[John Tower Speech to AGC Convention about Labor Law Reform, Houston, March 7, 1972] (open access)

[John Tower Speech to AGC Convention about Labor Law Reform, Houston, March 7, 1972]

Speech; Correlation between organized labor and inflation; Labor law reform as domestic priority; Associated General Contractors (AGC); Bill to repeal the Davis-Bacon Act of 1931; General Accounting Office (GAO); Federal construction costs; Construction unions; Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee.
Date: March 7, 1972
Creator: Tower, John G. (John Goodwin), 1925-1991
System: The Portal to Texas History
[John Tower excerpts of address on productivity and profitability to Shipbuilders Council of America, June 7, 1972] (open access)

[John Tower excerpts of address on productivity and profitability to Shipbuilders Council of America, June 7, 1972]

Speech; naval and merchant ships; shipbuilding; President Nixon's Doctrine of Strategic Sufficiency; trade and commerce; Nixon's Seattle Speech; Merchant Marine Revitalization Act of 1970.
Date: June 7, 1972
Creator: Tower, John G. (John Goodwin), 1925-1991
System: The Portal to Texas History