This legislation will provide $5 billion in direct tax reduction to the American taxpayers to be implemented immediately.

Our hope is that with rains this year and with heavier snowfall in the next winter, that 1978 might be better.

I will nominate Sam Y. Cross, Jr., of Falls Church, Va., to be U.S. Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund.

We should identify as quickly as possible the best remaining candidates for inclusion in the Wild and Scenic Rivers System before they are dammed, channelized, or damaged by unwise development along their banks.

We have seen many Members of the Congress work long hours on this very fine legislation.

As we know now, that assumption was wrong; none of us is a stranger to environmental problems.

I believe environmental protection is consistent with a sound economy.

The White House Fellowship program was established in 1964 to provide outstanding young Americans with firsthand experience in the process of governing the Nation.

To halt the degradation of the urban environment and to conserve and develop its rich historic and physical resources, the place to begin is with the neighborhoods themselves.

Protection of this country's natural resources depends in large part on the actions, leadership, and example of the federal government.

The time for discrimination against the handicapped in the United States is over.

Our country needs you, and I know that you will never disappoint those who look to you for leadership.

The civil rights of handicapped persons is not the only element of the laws that have been put into effect.

Intelligent stewardship of the environment on behalf of all Americans is a prime responsibility of government.

I know it will not be easy to reach agreements.

The great democracies are not free because we are strong and prosperous.

The time has come for the principle of majority rule to be the basis for political order.

I believe we can have a foreign policy that is democratic, that is based on fundamental values, and that uses power and influence for humane purposes.