I hope when you go back to your homes, you'll tell your families and your friends of our confidence that things are getting better.

Our abundance is a product of the hard work of our farmers, the skill and technological know-how that we put into agriculture and, most important, the freedom of which we're so proud here in America.

I always get a kick out of meeting with the Future Farmers of America.

President today announced his intention to nominate Thomas J. Healey to be an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.

Now, I can't imagine anything more discouraging for young teachers than to see a rigid salary scale laid out for the rest of their lives that ignores their efforts no matter how good they might be.

Today, one of our farmworkers produces enough food to feed himself plus 50 other Americans and 20 people in other countries in the world.

I proclaim August 3, 1983, as National Paralyzed Veterans Recognition Day.

The time has come for us to take a strong stand against organized crime.

This senseless violence must cease.

I herewith report three new deferrals of budget authority totaling $16,118,000.

There is established the President's Commission on Organized Crime.

I do hereby designate the week beginning July 24, 1983, as National Animal Agriculture Week.

If we can maintain our stable, bipartisan, consistent approach here at home, we have a great opportunity to achieve what we all want—lasting stability in the nuclear balance and significant reductions of nuclear arsenals on both sides.

I will appoint J. Joseph Lydon to be a member of the Advisory Committee to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.

Their authorization of production of the Peacekeeper missile reaffirms the fact that, as a nation, we are united in our approach to arms reductions and protecting peace.

It is good news for all Americans that the House and Senate have again demonstrated bipartisan unity in pursuit of two vital national goals—strategic modernization and arms control.

There is no comparison with Vietnam.

I can only repeat to you that we're going after organized crime, root and branch.