I have selected, and the Senate has now confirmed, a man who will not just be an adequate Attorney General but who will be a great Attorney General.

I want to be sure that everything I do...is conducive to a restoration of trust and harmony.

It was a symbolic separation of both disaffected people and disadvantaged people from the core of justice.

The Attorney General should personify what the President of the United States is-attitudes, philosophies, commitments.

I know that some of them have not been here before.

This legislation is a simple, temporary measure to enable the government to cope with an unprecedented shortage of natural gas supplies.

I have implicit trust in Judge Griffin Bell.

This is a great day in my own life and, I believe, a great day in the life of our Nation.

One of the most crucial appointments that a President can make is that of Attorney General.

But we have been slow to appreciate their increasing importance.

The Secretary of State and I consider the Law of the Sea negotiations to be a very high priority.

The oceans comprise over two-thirds of the Earth's surface.

I am confident that the United States will be most ably represented in these negotiations.

My nomination of Elliot Richardson, with his extensive experience and abilities, testifies to the importance I personally attach to achieving success in these negotiations.

I think that his appointment as Secretary of HEW will be a very good place for him to demonstrate his sensitivity about this need.

Time is urgently needed now both by the administration and the Congress to focus immediate attention on the present major shortages of natural gas and its substitute fuels.

President Carter does not by this withdrawal intend to imply any position on the ultimate merits or demerits of gasoline decontrol.

I believe in a Cabinet administration of our Government.