It is with deep regret that I accept today your resignation as Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.

You have served honorably and worked hard in support of our policies, and all of us owe you a debt of gratitude.

I do hereby proclaim February 11, 1983, as National Inventors' Day.

I applaud the Congress for making this change.

More than anyone else, you have been responsible for honoring my firm commitment that society's safety net be maintained.

It is my hope that you will continue to provide us with advice and assistance in the months and years ahead.

You have performed both of these tasks with unexcelled competence and compassion.

It is essential that we press forward in the search for arms reduction; we shall be unrelenting in our efforts.

I cannot approve H.R. 7336 because the bill makes substantive changes to the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act that are unacceptable.

Your contributions to the launching of our comprehensive proposals now under negotiation in Europe have been critical.

Your efforts to implement the arms control objectives of this Administration have been appreciated.

I am pleased to announce the appointment of Roswell K. Boutwell to the National Cancer Advisory Board.

The Attorney General has advised me, and I agree, that two Houses of Congress cannot bind the Executive branch by passing a concurrent resolution that is not presented to me for approval or veto.

I believe that we can have a strong and sound Federal royalty management program.

Today, with great pleasure, I am signing into law H.R. 5121, the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act.

I have no higher priority or higher purpose than to reduce the risk and the means of conflict and to help bring a true peace with justice to the world we live in.

I'm proud about what you've accomplished here in north Texas.

It does, I think, fit in with what we're going to go to the Congress with.