I'm so thankful that there will always be one day in the year when people all over our land can sit down as neighbors and friends and remind ourselves of what our real task is.

Our bilateral relationship with Austria remains close and cooperative.

Those born in the Year of the Boar are lucky in all ways and their lives are marked by success.

It is a time to reaffirm hopes and goals and a time to cast away the troubles of the old year.

In this, the Year of the Boar, it is a pleasure to extend my warmest greetings to all those celebrating this Lunar New Year, 4681.

The unemployment that many of our citizens are experiencing is a consequence of the disinflation that must necessarily follow the accelerating inflation of the last decade.

It is my heartfelt wish that any good fortune that I derive from it will auger well for our country.

I came to Washington with a deep personal commitment to change America's economic future.

Understanding black history is fundamental to a thorough comprehension of the full scope and sweep of the American historical experience.

We have urged the United Nations and its affiliated agencies to slow budget growth, define priorities, upgrade personnel, and purge debate of irrelevant and divisive rhetoric.

Government spending absorbed an increasing share of national income.

Only a healthy and growing economy can provide the more than 13 million jobs needed to achieve a progressively lower level of unemployment over the next 5 years.

The observance of Afro-American (Black) History Month affords all of us a fine opportunity to recognize further and to appreciate the role of black Americans in the development of our nation.

May 4681 bring each of you health, prosperity, and well-being.

Every American can be grateful to the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History for its dedicated efforts to promote both popular and scholarly interest in American black history.

My Administration will continue to work strenuously and constructively to defend United States interests in the United Nations setting and to make the Organization itself increasingly more responsive to global problems and needs.

It is essential in the year ahead that the Administration and the Congress work together, take a long-term perspective, and pursue economic policies that lead to sustained economic growth and to greater prosperity for all Americans.

If you can find a better program than that, you buy it.