We have already done that, and we are pushing that as hard as we possibly can.

We have just reached an agreement with the Government of Mexico which will permit the purchase of Mexican natural gas by United States buyers.

The legislation should not impede cooperation between the carriers to plan and manage national systems.

Consumers are the final beneficiaries of competition, through lower prices and wider choices.

We cannot afford to have this progress frustrated by unwarranted regulation.

Well, what I consider—the Ku Klux Klan and everything it stands for is absolutely abhorrent to me and, I think, to our Nation.

Universal availability of basic telephone service at affordable rates must be maintained.

Public opinion polls are interesting.

There is established a board of three members to be appointed by the President to investigate these disputes.

It is inconceivable that the Congress would allow the Panama Canal to be closed even for a short time.

The United States must have legislative authority by October 1 to exercise our rights to operate the canal.

This strike is having a severe, adverse economic effect on farmers throughout the Central United States.

The purpose of this action is to get the trains rolling again in a matter of days and to start moving grain that has already been piling up in the large areas of the Midwest served by the Rock Island Railroad line.

I'm today appointing an emergency board, under the Railway Labor Act, to intervene in the labor dispute that has crippled the Rock Island Railroad since August 27.

I will nominate Roberts Bishop Owen, of Washington, D.C., to be Legal Adviser of the Department of State.

I call upon the Congress to pass without delay the rail deregulation proposal to break the strangulation of outmoded, unnecessary economic regulations.

I urge the people of the United States to observe the week of October 14, 1979, as National School Lunch Week.

Active, growing youngsters need good food to do well in school.