Ronald Reagan

I have approved a 10-point action plan to advance the national and international response to the public health threat caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection and the AIDS epidemic.

Please provide Dr. Macdonald with appropriate information about your progress.

New sanctions would jeopardize South Africa's continued participation in this promising diplomatic initiative.

Upon confirmation, he will be designated Chairman.

Mr. Blanco has been chairman of the board of Multiple Medical Management of Los Angeles, in Arcadia, CA, since 1978.

Such a change would place administrative burdens on the Federal contracting agencies, increase the cost of Federal contracts, and require the development of a new body of Federal procurement procedures.

The proposed legislation would... cost the U.S. coal industry about $250 million.

Congress needs to get back to work and come up with a bill I can sign.

Standing up for democracy, supporting freedom against communism, is the right thing.

I am returning without my approval H.R. 4264, the National Defense Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1989.

The most objectionable of these provisions would preclude the use of housing vouchers for existing Section 8 loan management cases.

Today I call upon the U.S. Congress to keep faith with itself.

We owe our children an alternative to the current policy of deterrence based solely on the threat of nuclear retaliation.

SDI can be practical and can be a method of protecting us against a nuclear attack.

The Congress must fully fund our vital Strategic Defense Initiative program without restricting research into promising technologies.

There is no similar requirement for the Soviet Union.

The Strategic Defense Initiative challenges our best scientists to find a way to deter war and protect what we value while threatening no one.

This bill would drastically curtail our Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) program.

The idea that if we removed all the pressure on the Sandinistas they would somehow then move to peace and democracy has been proven false.

The Sandinistas' real face is not hard to find.

This would undermine both our strategic deterrent and our position in the START negotiations.

I had to feel the process has not been concluded.

The importance placed on this system by the Soviets is evidenced not only by the 20-year-long development of their own SDI but by their actions at the 1986 summit.

The bill would signal a basic change in the direction of our national defense, a change away from strength and proven success and back toward weakness and accommodation of the 1970's.

I salute those in the Congress who supported me on this issue.