04/30/1979
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"I intend to transmit that decision to the Congress in the very near future."
"The reduced speed limit has been the biggest single factor in this 17-percent drop in highway fatalities."
"Let it be clearly understood that by exceeding the speed limit, we are wasting fuel and, in too many instances, lives as well."
"If we all drove within the speed limit, we could save more than 8 million gallons of gasoline a day."