Jimmy Carter

Inflation remains our most serious domestic problem.

The United States, on Pan American Day 1979, salutes the other nations of this hemisphere, and pledges its solidarity with them.

Our tallest tribute to him in this centennial year of his birth is to reaffirm our commitment to build vigorously on his enduring legacy of scientific discovery and social progress.

We can eliminate thousands of untilled, expensive hospital beds.

This proposal meets a pressing and immediate need and allows our Nation's communities to plan sensibly for the future.

We shall control inflation by this very specific act that only the Congress can take this year to control inflation.

I am requesting that $250 million be spent in FY 1979 and $150 million in FY 1980 for this program.

Continued inflation, if uncontrolled, will be a threat not only to our own American economy but to the basic societal structure of our country.

I will nominate Francis J. Meehan, of Washington, D.C., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.

We must not allow the prospects for peace which seemed so bright last September to continue to dim and perhaps to vanish.

An informed and engaged citizenry is essential for the health and vitality of our democracy.

During the course of today's meetings, President Carter put forward suggestions designed to help resolve some of the outstanding differences between Egypt and Israel.

I'm very grateful and honored and pleased to have Prime Minister Trudeau come and visit us for this substantive discussion.

I expressed my appreciation for Canada's support for the U.S. pursuit of SALT II negotiations.

The United States plans to take appropriate action to increase its oil production to offset the world supply shortfall.

I was reassured that President Carter insisted that there was a desire on the part of the U.S. Government that it be proceeded with.

I think it's accurate to say that the relationship that we have with the great Prime Minister of Canada, Pierre Trudeau, is accurately mirrored in this same context.

It means both sides are pretty happy, I think, with the way in which we've settled the disputes in the MTN and the fisheries areas, in particular.

I affirm my government's strong commitment to the completion of the line.

Enhanced bilateral cooperation in the field of energy will serve the interests of both countries.

We both are resolved to work much more closely in the future even than we have in the past.

The meeting today was a serious, wide-ranging, and useful discussion of the situation in the region and the problems of building peace there.

I am proud to recognize the Survey's century of valuable service to our Nation.

I wholeheartedly applaud its high standards of excellence in past accomplishments.

I will nominate William M. Burkhalter, to be a member of the Renegotiation Board.