I want to say, also, that this legislation has broader interest than just to Georgia.

I particularly want to thank Senator Abourezk and Senator Pete Williams; and especially Phil Burton, who has husbanded this legislation through the Congress in a very effective fashion.

This is a great step forward and is indicative of the need for well-preserved recreation areas to be in the immediate vicinity of major urban centers.

It’s one of the most beautiful places in our country, extremely valuable to all those who know it, who live near it, and who appreciate the quiet and seclusion and the beauty and the value of this river to our people.

This legislation will provide authorization-not the appropriation of money yet—for the acquisition of property over a 48-mile stretch, from Buford Dam down to Peachtree Creek.

I will not permit any more expansion in beef imports this year.

I want to go as far as I possibly can to get the Government out of the farm business of America.

The fight against inflation becomes nearly impossible when the pressures of special economic interest lobbies are successful.

America's agricultural productivity and the family farm structure are among the greatest accomplishments of Western civilization.

In fiscal year 1976, when I ran for President, the Federal deficit was $66.4 billion.

It is a fundamental right of every American, as guaranteed by the first amendment of the Constitution, to worship as he or she pleases.

Mr. Zagoria is a talented and experienced individual who can ably serve this Government in a number of important ways.

I welcome enactment of this resolution as an important action to assure religious freedom for all Americans.

I have signed into law S.J. Res. 102, the American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978.

I think a lot of foreign leaders and people throughout the world see this as a sign of weakness on the part of our country, a lack of will to address a very difficult and challenging problem.

I would hate to admit how much.

One of the results of the recent coal workers contract that has not been adequately assessed is the stability that it is bringing to the coal industry.

We must work together to secure the peace.