This is no job for the faint-hearted.

The Secretary shall, through existing National Park Service programs, provide for the continuation of appropriate commemoration of events relating to the American Revolution until December 31, 1983.

I've been encouraged by the progress that the administration and the Congress have already made together in the last 5 months.

I believe it's especially important for us to get continuing advice and counsel from the Members of the House and the Senate about the way our Federal programs are being administered.

Everyone is privileged to vote and is urged to vote and the decisions of the people on election day are binding without question.

We also have seen a country evolve there, looking back on the superb leadership of the great liberator, Simon Bolivar.

President Perez has become an active and effective spokesman for the Third World nations.

Venezuela maintained their staunch friendship to our country.

I just wanted, in my brief remarks tonight, in genuine admiration of our visitor and his great nation, to point out to you that there are many things in this hemisphere that we can learn from our neighbors.

I think that the beauty of the setting will be matched and even exceeded by the beauty of the performances.

I would like to propose a toast to President and Mrs. Perez and to the people of the great and free democratic nation, our friends, the people of Venezuela.

President Perez continues in this admirable mold of leadership which has come from the great nation and our close friend, the country of Venezuela.

The choir director has just informed me that they were received with open arms and deep appreciation and a mutual expression of the love for music which can cross national boundaries.

I think it's accurate to say that among all the visitors that we've had here at this great center of our Government's life, Venezuela is represented by a man who epitomizes the finest aspects of our own country's hopes and dreams and…

I think I'll abandon the parallel at this point.

His commitment to the basic principles of human rights, individual freedom, and liberty were vividly demonstrated recently at the Organization of American States conference.

I would like to express my thanks at the beginning for the combined choirs of Wheaton College and Union College.

Venezuela has earned the great admiration of all those who believe in freedom and in the open, democratic processes of government.