Jimmy Carter

I want to welcome all of you to the White House to a very important conference.

We welcome the investment by foreign buyers in this improvement in transport, loading, and handling facilities.

That would be a most undesirable interference with the constitutional separation of powers.

I have a responsibility to my successors and to the American people not to permit that encroachment to take place.

I have been committed to the vigorous enforcement of the Fourteenth Amendment to our Constitution and of our civil rights laws.

I am returning without my signature H.R. 7584, the State-Justice-Commerce Appropriations Act of 1980.

We in the United States are deeply sympathetic to the Italian people and their government in this time of great sorrow and great need.

He has had an unwavering commitment to the idea that progress in health care depends on research.

It is gratifying to join Congress in devoting increased attention to the under-involvement of women and minorities in the scientific and technical professions.

I am pleased today to sign into law H.R. 5496, the National Historic Preservation Act Amendments of 1980.

I hope, provide some measure of immediate relief to the stricken area and help a courageous people to overcome the effects of disaster.

I oppose this legislative veto device, and pursuant to my message to Congress of June 21, 1978, I will treat these legislative vetoes as report-and-wait provisions.

I am therefore reminding the Director of the National Science Foundation that committee reports are not law and should not be treated as though they were.

This bill will help to correct that inequity and prevent the waste of a vast pool of potential talent.

H.R. 7020, Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980.

This legislation, known as the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980, is the latest and one of the most important steps that we have taken.

I'm very delighted now to sign this legislation.

It fills a major gap in the existing laws of our country and also will tend to focus the attention of the public on this very crucial problem that must be resolved.

This directly affects the chemical industry, and the enlightened attitude of the executives of that industry was a very constructive element.

This bill represents a fine achievement for the Congress and for my own administration and for the whole Nation.

We must face that responsibility.

Now, Therefore, I, Jimmy Carter, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States, do proclaim that:

This is no time to strip a President of inflation-fighting powers.

John Lennon helped create the music and the mood of our time.

I know that I speak for many millions of Americans when I say that I am saddened by his death, and distressed by the senseless manner of it.