Jimmy Carter

I will soon appoint a Presidential Commission on the Coal Industry, a panel which will address the industry's long-term problems.

Despite many predictions to the contrary, there has been no serious violence.

I am pleased that the members of the United Mine Workers have voted to approve the latest coal contract.

Success is not measured by what we achieve, but by how we make a difference in the lives of others.

An act to amend the National Trails System Act, and for other purposes.

Many of these losses could have been averted if property owners had purchased flood insurance.

He is a professional.

Submitted March 22, 1978

This is a good day in the life of the Carter administration and the Federal Government and the United States of America.

Submitted March 23, 1978

I'm very grateful that he is here to represent the people of our country in such a superb way.

An act authorizing the Wichita Indian Tribe of Oklahoma, and its affiliated bands and groups of Indians, to file with the Indian Claims Commission any of their claims against the United States for lands taken without adequate compensation…

When Jim Mcintyre speaks to the heads of the Federal agencies in the preparation of the budget, they know that he speaks as though it were my own voice.

I doubt that there's anyone in the administration whom I know better and whom I admire more than Jim Mcintyre.

It’s reassuring to me in the challenging job that I have to be supported by and advised by a man of this caliber and this quality.

Improving Government Regulations

Any of these national organizations should notify the appropriate executive department or agency if it believes that a regulation included on an agency regulation agenda would have major intergovernmental significance.

The United States continues, and will continue, to lend its full support to the Organization of American States and the Inter-American System.

This requirement will ensure that Federal regulations are cost-effective and impose minimum economic burdens on the private sector.

Agencies shall give the public an early and meaningful opportunity to participate in the development of agency regulations.

Public comments have been considered and an adequate response has been prepared.

They shall not impose unnecessary burdens on the economy, on individuals, on public or private organizations, or on State and local governments.

I expect that you will include in your revised agency procedures, provisions which will institute intergovernmental consultation described in this memorandum.

We join with its other members in reaffirming our mutual commitment to friendship, trust and cooperation.

Agencies shall establish criteria for identifying which regulations are significant.