10/05/1978
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"I have a responsibility to my successors and to the American people not to permit that encroachment to take place."
"I have been committed to the vigorous enforcement of the Fourteenth Amendment to our Constitution and of our civil rights laws."
"That would be a most undesirable interference with the constitutional separation of powers."
"I am returning without my signature H.R. 7584, the State-Justice-Commerce Appropriations Act of 1980."