Ronald Reagan

It is especially important for would-be donors to make their intentions known to family members.

Together, we can make organ and tissue donation another expression of American generosity.

Today I announced my intention to appoint two new members to the President's Export Council.

All Americans must know what they can do to consent to become organ and tissue donors.

I urge all health care professionals, educators, the media, public and private organizations, and all Americans to join me in promoting greater and more widespread awareness and acceptance of this humanitarian practice.

I do hereby proclaim the month of April 1986 as Cancer Control Month.

The Packard commission report urges the Congress to make a number of improvements in the way it deals with defense.

Other recommendations that Congress must approve include moving from year-to-year to multiyear procurements of weapon systems in order to make the acquisition process more stable.

Today the United States has substantially reestablished the strength and self-confidence it needs to perform its role as the leader of the free world.

My predecessor had called attention to this and had proposed a 5-year expansion of the defense budget.

Some recommendations can be acted upon without congressional approval, and under Secretary Weinberger's leadership this is taking place.

The Packard commission has made its recommendations; now it's time for the administration and the Congress to act upon them.

This new effort takes place against a background of national defenses that have already grown much stronger.

With lower inflation, Defense Secretary Weinberger got that crazy spiral under control.

I will soon send a message to the Congress asking your Senators and Representatives to join me in reforming the Defense Establishment.

Enactment of S. 186 would not be in accord with the program of the President.

The bill is highly anticompetitive in character.

I, Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States, do proclaim that:

I have determined, pursuant to section 504(a) of the Trade Act, that it is appropriate to withdraw the application of duty-free treatment under the GSP to certain chemical mixtures containing ethyl alcohol (ethanol).

Jimmy Cagney was the classic American success story, lifting himself by determination and hard work out of poverty to national acclaim.

He was the best at whatever he did—a hero, a villain, a comic, or a dancer.

Jimmy burst upon our movie screen with an energy and a talent we have never seen before and we will never see again.

We will miss Jimmy, but we know he has found eternal rest and peace in God's arms.

Nancy and I have lost a dear friend of many years today, and America has lost one of her finest artists.

I believe the entire Nation loved Jimmy Cagney, and I think he must have loved us, too, because he always gave us his very best.