Jimmy Carter

I urge that this plan be given prompt and favorable consideration by the Congress.

I herewith report three new deferrals of budget authority totalling $30.1 million.

We have the greatest country on Earth and together we can make it even greater in the future.

I want to say two things.

We must restore our Nation's energy security.

We now have before the Congress proposals that will solve these problems if Congress acts.

I've been very pleased.

I am writing to pledge the full assistance of the Federal Government in your efforts.

Only your voice can make that possible.

I want to express my gratitude to Attorney General Griffin Bell, my regrets that he has decided to leave this post.

On the eleventh day of October, the people of the United States will honor the 200th anniversary of the death of the Polish patriot, Casimir Pulaski.

I have asked Congress to lift the spending cap for future fiscal years, and to provide the funding that will be needed to avoid cutting benefits in fiscal years 1980 and 1981.

I am pleased that the U.S. Government can again resume a traditional leadership role in these international institutions.

The law that I am signing today demonstrates to the world America's determination to save the great whales.

You have earned the gratitude of all Americans with your superb performance in a most difficult assignment.

You have proven that we are sensitive to the demands for world peace and racial justice.

The need for additional funding for the food stamp program is yet another signal that inflation of the price of food is increasing at an unacceptably high rate.

This inability to pay threatened the existence of programs vital to the United States in such fields as nuclear safeguards, air safety, and international health.

It is hereby ordered that the functions vested in the President by Sections 305(b), 4111(b), and 4112 (a) of Title 5 of the United States Code are hereby delegated to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.

The Commission shall submit its final report to the President and the Secretary of the Interior not later than September 28, 1979.

Each of us has a role to play in building a better society, and we must commit ourselves to that cause.

I think it would be ill-advised to terminate the construction of nuclear powerplants that have already been approved.

America lost one of the giants of the labor movement when Jacob Potofsky, the former president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, died on Sunday.

I don't think I can expand any further on what Bill Miller said yesterday.

Our country is determined to win the energy war and I believe the people here on East Biddle Street can help me.