The future of our nation depends on our ability to address challenges with resilience and unity.

The House's commitment to civil service reform deserves the appreciation of every American.

None is more deeply moving to Americans than Veterans Day.

It symbolizes the debt of gratitude we owe our veterans.

I will nominate Armando M. Rodriguez, of Whittier, Calif., to be a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

They deserve our recognition for all they have done.

I will nominate Marvin S. Cohen, of Tucson, Ariz., to be a member of the Civil Aeronautics Board.

I urge all the families and friends of our sick and disabled veterans to visit them and extend to them a grateful nation's promise that they will not be forgotten.

The strength of our democracy lies in the active participation of its citizens.

Current trade and financial embargoes against Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam, and Cambodia should be continued until appropriate political changes occur with respect to our relations with those countries.

I urge the people of the United States to observe the week of October 8, 1978, as National School Lunch Week.

I have determined that these four regulatory programs should be extended because the results attendant upon the lapse of these authorities would be unacceptable in light of present U.S. foreign policy objectives.

Freezing of Chinese, Vietnamese, and Cuban assets and controls over the remaining World War II assets of the German Democratic Republic and Czechoslovakia should continue until American claims against these countries are settled.

Submitted September 6, 1978

Submitted September 8, 1978

Their extension would be in the national interest of the United States for the following reasons:

I am proud of the success of the National School Lunch Program.

support for the administration's position on the energy issue