We have already done that, and we are pushing that as hard as we possibly can.

Universal availability of basic telephone service at affordable rates must be maintained.

The legislation should not impede cooperation between the carriers to plan and manage national systems.

Well, what I consider—the Ku Klux Klan and everything it stands for is absolutely abhorrent to me and, I think, to our Nation.

Public opinion polls are interesting.

This is a significant step toward providing a new source of energy supplies for our country.

We cannot afford to have this progress frustrated by unwarranted regulation.

The agreement is a breakthrough in building the relationship of equity and mutual respect.

I am today announcing my support for efforts in Congress to reform the regulation of telecommunications.

Regulatory reform is one of my highest national priorities.

The purpose of this action is to get the trains rolling again in a matter of days and to start moving grain that has already been piling up in the large areas of the Midwest served by the Rock Island Railroad line.

I call upon the Congress to pass without delay the rail deregulation proposal to break the strangulation of outmoded, unnecessary economic regulations.