There is no way under any possible political party or any possible President that our Nation could ever be separated from a feeling of affinity and mutual purpose for the people of Italy.

This is, indeed, a time to recognize that the peace and the prosperity of Europe is dependent upon the peace and prosperity of the United States.

I think it's a measure not of weakness, but of strength.

To threaten basic human rights with terrorism, and to threaten the rule of law with terrorism and with international violence is indeed a pressure for friends to stand together.

I will nominate Carl William Fischer to be Assistant Secretary of Education for Budget and Planning.

We are committed to the vigorous pursuit of all promising avenues that might lead to that settlement.

Therefore, as I noted in my message of August 27, 1979, I asked the Secretary of the Treasury to prepare a report on this complicated subject, which, as you know, has involved the Congress and this Administration in long deliberations in…

I know all of you join me in this happy occasion.

I have just signed a Presidential Proclamation designating the Month of March as Red Cross Month.

Our American Red Cross is in dire financial need because of vast sums expended for disaster relief during a three-month period last summer.

The decision by Soviet authorities to deprive Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov of his honors and to send him into exile arouses worldwide indignation.

The arrest of Dr. Sakharov is a scar on their system that the Soviet leaders cannot erase by hurling abuse at him and seeking to mask the truth.