I hereby delegate to the Secretary of State the authorities and duties vested in the President under sections 1205(d) and 1207(c) of Title XII of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995.

The authorities and duties vested in the President under section 504 of the Act are hereby delegated to the Secretary of State.

I hereby delegate to the Secretary of State the authority and duty vested in the President under section 1612 (b) and (d), Title XVI of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994.

The Secretary of State shall be responsible for implementing sections 1704, 1707, and 1708 of the Act.

I hereby delegate to the Secretary of State the functions vested in me by section 303 and section 324 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993.

I hereby delegate to the Secretary of State the functions vested in me by section 562A(a)(2) of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1991.

I AM sure that all Americans will join me in extending congratulations to Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger upon his richly deserved selection as corecipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1973.

As the Nation's 55th Secretary of State, he played an indispensable role in ending our longest war and in starting to build a new structure of peace

On September 25, Secretary of State Rogers also expressed to the United Nations the profound concern of the American people over the growing menace of international terrorism.

The Secretary of State, and, when designated by the Secretary of State for such purpose, the Under Secretary of State, are hereby designated and empowered to exercise, without the approval, ratification, or other action of the President, the authority conferred upon the President by Section 7 of the Foreign Gifts and Decorations Act of 1966 to prescribe rules and regulations to carry out the purposes of that Act.

I think the Secretary of State covered the administration's position very thoroughly Sunday.

But I think if your friends on the Washington Post and New York Herald Tribune could have observed what happened over there yesterday with almost 300 Members of Congress, when one Congressman said, `Mr. President, I want to tell you that the American Nation is proud of the Secretary of State,' there was a spontaneous outburst and every Member in the room stood and applauded.

I would not believe that the Washington Post and the New York Herald Tribune would be in the business of either predicting or nominating my Secretary of State.

Your statement with respect to the Secretary of State is not only unwarranted, but is personally offensive to me.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code (65 Stat. 713), and as President of the United States, it is ordered that the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, designated and empowered to exercise, without the approval, ratification, or other action of the President, so much of the authority vested in the President by the first section of the Joint Resolution of March 4, 1948, entitled 'Joint Resolution providing for membership and participation by the United States in the Caribbean Commission and authorizing an appropriation therefor' (62 Stat. 66; 22 U.S.C. 280h) as consists of authority to appoint alternate United States Commissioners to the Caribbean Commission.

Publication. Regulations prescribed the Secretary of State and the Civil Service Commission, and designations of places and rates fixed by them, under or pursuant to this order shall be published in the FEDERAL REGISTER.

Designation and cancellations of designation of unhealthful posts. The Secretary of State is hereby authorized and empowered to exercise the authority vested in the President by section 853 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946 (22 U.S.C. 1093) to establish from time to time a list of places which by reason of climatic or other extreme conditions are to be classed as unhealthful posts and to cancel the designation of any places as unhealthful.

The provisions of sections 501 and 502 of this Executive order shall be subject to the authority delegated to the Secretary of State by this section.