The United States cannot associate itself with the Decade so long as it endorses the patently false definition of Zionism as a form of racism.

No. The only thing they were interested in was that I would repeat for the Congress and for the American public my interests along with theirs to protect the interests of the poor and the underprivileged.

We will work towards this end because we know the challenge that racism poses, and for more than a century we have struggled to heal its scars.

We have been especially careful in natural gas legislation to protect the interests of the poor, the underprivileged, and those who don't have the flexible capability to accommodate changing prices.

This legislation, when passed, will give us a new national market, making available new supplies of natural gas which will be at a lower price than competitive foreign oil.

I adhere firmly to my request that the Congress provide $126.0 billion for defense in Fiscal Year 1979.

I do not favor the tuition tax credit approach to college students.

It is a special opportunity to reaffirm this Administration's commitment to ensuring the full participation of our Hispanic citizens in all levels of our society and government.

I cannot, consistently with my constitutional responsibilities, sign into law a bill that in my view would weaken our national security in certain critical areas and wastes scarce defense dollars.

Benefit payments under these Acts totaled almost $4 billion.

To represent the public interest and advise the Congress of the Administration's position, I appointed as Chairman, William P. Adams.

Each of these appointees is extremely well qualified and can be expected to set a high level of public service.

To spend $2 billion in defense dollars in that way would ignore much more serious and immediate defense needs.

The normalization of relations with the People's Republic of China has always been a goal of my administration.

The importance of National Hispanic Heritage Week should not be underestimated.

We need a fleet that includes more vessels that can perform our Navy's mission but that are not, as this one would be, so designed as to be prohibitively expensive to build.

I hereby transmit the annual report of the Railroad Retirement Board which summarizes its fiscal year 1977 operations under both the Railroad Retirement and Railroad Unemployment Insurance Acts.

I cannot foreclose the option that I have to act unilaterally through Executive order if the Congress does not act.