True progress is achieved when we work together to overcome our challenges and build a better future.

We can take control of our energy problems, and we will.

I, Jimmy Carter, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the year 1978, diamond jubilee anniversary of powered flight, as National Aviation Year.

This is a good day for New York City.

I call upon American families and other property owners to install smoke detectors, to practice exit drills, and to be especially vigilant in guarding against fires caused by cooking and fires caused by smoking materials.

Fire causes more loss of life and property in the United States than all other natural disasters combined.

This year, 1978, is the diamond jubilee anniversary of aviation.

What we do here today is not an end but a beginning—a beginning of a new life, a better life for us all.

There is no task more important than this search for peace.

This bill represents a crucial step in New York's long and difficult climb back towards solvency and independence.

Here in New York that New Partnership is indeed a demonstrated reality.

I support and encourage the cooperative efforts of private enterprise and government in developing low cost residential sprinkler systems.

I encourage the fire service, police, prosecutors, the insurance industry, and government to work together to remove incentives for arson, and to improve arson detection and prosecution so that we can begin to eliminate this costly, often…

I urge all agencies of Federal, state and local government involved in the planning and implementation of programs directed to finding solutions to such national concerns as energy conservation, environmental protection, and economic…

I urge officials in private industry and in government who are responsible for using or regulating hazardous materials to seek and implement measures to significantly reduce the possibility of life loss in the event of manufacturing…

the white cane is an invaluable tool with which they can move about confidently and, most important, independently.

If New York keeps its commitments-and I'm sure it will-then this bill will not cost the American taxpayers 1 cent.

Let there be no mistake about what this bill does.