12/25/1980
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"Yours is most important work, and I'm very grateful that our country has dedicated people like you, competent and professional, to represent our great Nation in this great nation."
"By the authority vested in me as President of the United States of America by Section 5317 of Title 5 of the United States Code, I hereby amend Executive Order No. 12076."
"Your responsibility is to tie our two countries together economically, politically, and in matters of mutual interest and mutual security."
"Yours is not a sterile responsibility, and it's almost impossible in an embassy in this country to separate matters of foreign policy from matters of domestic policy."