We are heading toward the most acute shortages of energy since World War II.
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Address to the Nation About Policies To Deal With the Energy Shortages
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This, more than anything, is what I hope will be my legacy to you, to our country, as I leave the Presidency.
In my economic address on May 25 of this year, I called for the establishment of a Cost of Living Task Force to monitor wages and prices.
By virtue of the authority vested in the President by the Constitution and statutes of the United States, including section 5 (b) of the act of October 6, 1917, as amended (12 U.S.C. 95a), and in view of the continued existence of the national emergencies declared by Proclamation No. 2914 of December 16, 1950, and Proclamation No. 4074 of August 15, 1971, and the importance of continuing...it is hereby ordered:
I did not realize the extent of the implications which these conversations might now appear to have.





