12/06/1979
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"Sections 2, 3, and 4 of that Plan, providing for the offices of Director, Deputy Director, and Associate Directors, are effective immediately."
"My goal as Secretary has been to demonstrate that Government can do all these things, not only with compassion, but with competence."
"Our Nation has been generously endowed by God with tremendous reserve supplies of these precious natural resources."
"Whenever the laws that the Congress charges the Secretary of HEW to execute are administered with vigor, there will be controversy."