Today, I announced my intention to appoint three members to the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation.

Without His help, America will not go forward.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Government spending absorbed an increasing share of national income.

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.

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

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.

Thanks to the courage, the patience, and the strength of people like you, America is on the mend.