I intend that reports covering the years of this Administration will reflect significant progress in that regard.

Failure to extend the waiver authority would remove the major incentive to encourage Romania to be more forthcoming on emigration.

The killing and maiming of innocent people advances no cause and serves no meaningful purpose.

Continuation of the waivers applicable to the Socialist Republic of Romania and to the Hungarian People's Republic will substantially promote the objectives of section 402.

True democracy is built on the principles of equality and justice for all.

The National Gallery symbolizes our belief in the freedom and the genius of the human mind which is manifested in art.

The dedication of this Gallery to a living past and to a greater and more richly living future is the measure of the earnestness of our intention that the freedom of the human spirit shall go on.

It combines a reverence for the past with an eagerness for the future.

This building is a gift of Paul Mellon, of his late sister, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, and of the Andrew Mellon Foundation.

Support for the arts and humanities flows through many different kinds of channels, leaving room for art and scholarship to develop naturally.

I accept for the Nation this East Building of the National Gallery of Art.

This beautiful building is an important addition to that unique repository of knowledge and culture, the Smithsonian Institution.

This building stands as a metaphor for what, at its best, the relationship between government and the arts can be.

We have no official art in this country, and I pray that we never will.

The White House Fellowship program was established in 1964 to provide outstanding Americans with firsthand experience in the process of governing the Nation.

I will nominate William H. Gleysteen, Jr., of Jenkintown, Pa., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Republic of Korea.

I am determined to obtain congressional approval for the repealing of the remaining arms restrictions on Turkey.

The most vivid impression that I have is one of a well-acknowledged common purpose.