Protection of the basic rights of all persons in our land is a vital part of our commitment to a just and humane society.

I invite all the American people, and people everywhere, to join me on this thirty-fourth anniversary of the United Nations, in strengthening our common resolve to increase its effectiveness in meeting the global challenges and aspirations…

Every time you save energy, you save money.

We can honor, in the process, environmental laws.

The programs we've put forward to the Congress will be all-inclusive for certain categories and will include all Medicaid and Medicare patients in the future.

As a nation, we simply must face up to the true cost of energy.

The problems that we face, compared to the blessings that we have, are very few and far between.

I'm asking the Congress to provide $1.6 billion this winter and $2.4 billion next year and thereafter to ease the burden of rising energy costs on people who most need assistance.

I think my goal and yours in that respect are identical.

I intend to nominate George M. Fumich, Jr., of Arlington, Va., to be Assistant Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy.

Without including energy, the inflation rate would only have gone up this year about one-fourth of 1 percent—without energy.

I have no doubt in my mind at all that we can meet any challenge with the ingenuity and the commitment and the courage and the freedom and the cooperation and the free enterprise system of our Nation.

It's not too much to ask the rest of us that we repay some of this debt now.

I intend to continue to support our mutual commitment with our NATO Allies.

I plan to send promptly to the Congress a defense budget amendment to restore enough funds to continue in FY 1980 to carry out the Administration's defense program.

Our strong support for Zaire is crucial.

I will support ceilings for the National Defense Function for FY 1980 of $141.2 billion in Budget Authority and $130.6 billion in outlays.

I urge all citizens, corporations, labor unions, trade associations, the media, and groups and organizations of all types to participate in this international energy conservation program at home, at work, while traveling and in all daily…