04/02/1978
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"My goal is that at the end of the following fiscal year, in October, on October 1 of 1978, that we would have no more employees in the Federal Government than we had in October of 1976."
"International Navigational Rules Act of 1977"
"It is my purpose in instituting these changes to strengthen Cabinet participation in Presidential decisions."
"This plan is the first of a series I intend to submit under the reorganization authority vested in me by the Reorganization Act of 1977 (P.L. 95-17)."