Jimmy Carter

I urge Americans to become better acquainted with the institutions that make up the United Nations.

The Senate's vote today on the natural gas compromise is an important step toward putting in place a comprehensive national energy policy.

This reflects our Nation's wholehearted conviction that the lessons of the Holocaust must never be forgotten.

To be performed without the approval of the President.

I pledge that the executive agencies will continue their cooperation with the intelligence oversight committees of Congress.

I intend to treat both of these provisions as 'report and wait' requirements.

The systematic extermination of millions of human beings by the Nazis during World War II was the most terrible crime in all recorded history.

I am pleased to sign into law H.R. 12240, the Intelligence and Intelligence-Related Activities Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1979.

I have today signed House Joint Resolution 1014, designating April 28 and 29, 1979, as 'Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust.'

Today I have signed H.R. 13468, which makes appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia.

I will nominate Peter Wolf to the District of Columbia Superior Court.

I am signing into law today S. 9, the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1978.

I favor the establishment of a formula which would consider the various factors involved in the Federal presence to determine the appropriate amount of the payment each year.

The dates chosen by Senator Danforth and embodied in this resolution thus aptly symbolize both the horror of genocide and the imperative to fight against it.

I would like to express particular commendation to the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House, the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate, and the House and Senate Armed Services Committees.

I applaud the passage of S. 9, which is an important part of our energy program.

This act symbolizes the recent achievements of the Congress that broaden and intensify oversight of intelligence activities through a cooperative effort with the executive agencies.

Egypt and Israel undertake not to resort to the threat or the use of force to settle disputes.

Egypt, Israel, Jordan and the representatives of the Palestinian people should participate in negotiations on the resolution of the Palestinian problem in all its aspects.

All necessary measures will be taken and provisions made to assure the security of Israel and its neighbors during the transitional period and beyond.

Together with accompanying letters, which we will make public tomorrow, these two Camp David agreements provide the basis for progress and peace throughout the Middle East.

The Palestinians will have the right to participate in the determination of their own future.

When we first arrived at Camp David, the first thing upon which we agreed was to ask the people of the world to pray that our negotiations would be successful.

To achieve a relationship of peace, future negotiations between Israel and any neighbor prepared to negotiate peace and security with it are necessary.

This framework concerns the principles and some specifics, in the most substantive way, which will govern a comprehensive peace settlement.