Ronald Reagan

I do hereby proclaim December 15, 1984, as National Care and Share Day.

Yet they worked long and hard, following their dreams, and succeeded in bringing music, drama, and laughter into our lives.

Since that brilliant work, you've continued to make rich contributions to American letters with plays like 'The Crucible' and 'A View From the Bridge.'

On behalf of all Americans, thank you, God bless you.

And today our nation has crowned her greatness with grace, and we gather this evening to honor five artists who have helped her to do so.

You know, when this good old house was built our country was little more than a band of towns, a very thin band, running along the eastern seaboard—people clinging to the edge of a vast and untamed continent.

After five decades, when you sing our spines still tingle and the ice still melts.

And today millions are grateful that you did.

We launched a major initiative in 1982 to nurture an appreciation of ties between us to enhance German-American contacts at all levels.

We place special emphasis on overcoming the barriers that divide Europe.

Chancellor Kohl and I share that desire, and we'll continue to work diligently to bring about a more peaceful world.

The solidity of the German-American partnership remains a crucial building block in the search for world peace.

Our talks confirmed the closeness of our views and the commitment to work together.

You don't break up a winning team.

It is with great regret that I accept your resignation as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

I want to express my personal and very warm thanks— as well as the appreciation of a grateful Nation—for the outstanding job you have done.

You have made absolutely clear our commitment to wise stewardship of the environment.

Separate international communications satellite systems are required in the national interest.

I do hereby proclaim William Penn and Hannah Callowhill Penn to be honorary citizens of the United States of America.

The budget, the overall spending, increased about 4 1/2 times.

We want to work more closely with the people of Fiji and Oceania.

Fijians are our brothers and sisters in the family of democratic nations.

Well, we have let them and we've let the Soviet Union know that this is something we cannot sit back and just take.

I think to look at just the deficit ignores the real problem.

I want first to thank Secretary Regan.