02/09/1977
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"I am very pleased to learn of a very important decision Monday by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco."
"I'll be issuing an Executive order soon to all executive officers telling them to act accordingly."
"I trust that the Congress will agree that a decision by the Supreme Court on this important issue is in the best interest of the Government as a whole."
"I cannot support the payment of taxpayers funds to them to remedy a problem they have with other private individuals in a situation in which the United States Government was in no way at fault."