Therefore, I am pleased to sign this bill which will assure quality protection for a very deserving group of workers--the Nation's Federal employees.

I feel this new legislation meets those changing conditions.

I appreciate the fact that good people will differ with me on this very difficult decision.

I have granted and by these presents do grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States.

I understand his position.

This bill will provide for improved protection against rising costs for Federal employees and survivors who receive benefits.

However, it is my judgment that it is in the best interest of our country.

I DEEPLY regret Jerry terHorst's resignation.

I think Jerry did an outstanding job in a controversial period of transition.

Finally, the bill increases compensation benefits for survivors.

And I have sought such guidance and searched my own conscience with special diligence to determine the right thing for me to do with respect to my predecessor in this place, Richard Nixon, and his loyal wife and family. Theirs is an…

This act provides workers' compensation benefits for Federal employees injured or killed in the performance of duty.

I would like, Mr. Ambassador, for you, because I am not the best spokesman in the Russian language, if you would introduce--well, I will try, but if I don't do very well, then he will have to correct me.

I think all of us agree that the broader we can make our relationships in health, in environment, in space, and many other areas, the better it is for us here in America and for our friends in the Soviet Union.

We have many fond memories of living in Alexandria, and we aren't going to sell our home.

I hope all you young people, particularly, will get to know our astronauts and the Soviet cosmonauts.

I wanted to come out here because it was one way that I could express my appreciation for the warm and kind things that were done by so many of the Alexandria Police Department.

Let us show the world that the character and quality of the American people has not changed in 200 years.