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

I believe that all of these considerations make it in the national interest to extend the general waiver authority.

I further determine that actual or foreseeable reductions in United States tariffs and nontariff barriers to trade resulting from multilateral negotiations are satisfactorily reciprocated by the Socialist Republic of Romania.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Both Presidents expressed their hope for greater progress toward social justice and majority rule.

Our confidence in Italy's ability to overcome present difficulties is strong.