I'm happy to say it’s been our pleasure to welcome Prime Minister Nakasone to the White House.

Our ties and our common responsibilities are of such importance that I've invited the Prime Minister to join me tomorrow for breakfast.

We began the discussions on international issues.

His intention to appoint Sylvester Emmanuel Williams IV to be a member of the National Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is a significant step.

Every time a black woman casts a ballot, Martin King is there.

The Commission shall make its report to the President by January 20, 1983.

Martin Luther King, Jr., showed us how much good a single life, well led, can accomplish.

This bipartisan solution would solve the social security problem defined by the Commission.

Let us be grateful for the providence that sends among us men and women with the courage and vision to stand peacefully but unyieldingly for what is right.

If we do this, then his sacrifice will not have been in vain, and we will have helped to make our country the special place we all know in our hearts that it was meant to be.

I believe the American people will welcome this demonstration of bipartisan cooperation.

Much of his dream has become reality, but much is still to be achieved.

He took the tension he found in our nation, a tension of injustice, and channeled it for the good of America and all her people.

He genuinely believed in the potential of America.

I am concerned, however, by some of the language of section 3(b) of S.J. Res. 260, which can be read to require me to appoint as members of the Commission—without discretion—those persons recommended by the Speaker of the House of…

This resolution designates the period commencing January 1, 1983, and ending December 31, 1983, as the Tricentennial Year of German Settlement in America.

I want to congratulate all parties to this consensus legislation.

I strongly support this effort and thank the Congress for its role in sponsoring United States-German teenage exchange with the West German Bundestag.