11/26/1978
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"This historic agreement represents a long-overdue step toward the creation of a truly national market for natural gas."
"Our objective... was to protect the Nation's consumers and the economy from the sudden imposition of the substantially higher natural gas prices that would result from immediate deregulation."
"Bob Hope is just as much a part of that as any President who's ever served."
"In the last 16 months we've seen a net increase of 5 1/2 million jobs, an almost unprecedented achievement."