08/30/1977
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"The policies you have helped me mold and implement...have all been right and necessary for the wellbeing of the United States and our place in the world economy."
"You have been a leading example of the readiness of prominent Americans from the private sector to render service in the public interest."
"Our Nation has been generously endowed by God with tremendous reserve supplies of these precious natural resources."
"Our national investment in scientific research is returned to us many times over in the advances it generates."