Jimmy Carter

An act to authorize the Smithsonian Institution to plan for the development of the area south of the original Smithsonian Institution Building adjacent to Independence Avenue at Tenth Street, Southwest, in the city of Washington.

I want to express my thanks to those who have served and who will now be leaving.

The first lunar landing and those which followed it were due to the unique and the specialized contributions of tens of thousands of Americans.

The severe impacts on our economy—and potentially on our political and social institutions—posed by the prospective oil stringencies of the 1980's have not been fully recognized.

I am well pleased with all the changes that have been made.

Further reductions of our combat elements in Korea should await credible indications that a satisfactory military balance has been restored and a reduction in tension is underway.

An aroused and united country can then guarantee our vital energy security.

You and Betty have my best wishes, and my thanks on behalf of a nation which has benefited from your service.

The Director shall represent the President in working with State and local governments and private sector to stimulate vigorous participation in civil emergency preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery programs.

Special International Security Assistance Act of 1979.

I have made some major changes in my Cabinet.

The United States is prepared to assist in that diplomatic effort.

Proposed legislation to establish a solar energy development bank and proposed energy tax incentives.

The Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency shall establish Federal policies for, and coordinate, all civil defense and civil emergency planning, management, mitigation, and assistance functions of Executive agencies.

Withdrawals of combat elements of the 2d Division will remain in abeyance.

This 10th anniversary, even, is a great moment for our Nation and for the world.

The geostrategic risks are stark—as is the attendant precariousness of supply.

The touchdown of Apollo II Eagle in the Sea of Tranquility was a stunning achievement, without precedent in human experience.

Only through authoritative discussions between representatives of the North and South Korean Governments can a framework for peaceful coexistence between the North and South be established.

Conservation, so widely dismissed a few years ago, has now become a simple reality.

I will nominate Thomas J. Watson, Jr., of Connecticut, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

U.S. troop withdrawals from the Republic of Korea.

Every single change has been a positive change.

As President, I am also determined to maintain America's leadership in space.

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, including the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950, as amended.