I'm asking the Congress to provide $1.6 billion this winter and $2.4 billion next year and thereafter to ease the burden of rising energy costs on people who most need assistance.

I intend to nominate George M. Fumich, Jr., of Arlington, Va., to be Assistant Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy.

I have no doubt in my mind at all that we can meet any challenge with the ingenuity and the commitment and the courage and the freedom and the cooperation and the free enterprise system of our Nation.

As a nation, we simply must face up to the true cost of energy.

We can honor, in the process, environmental laws.

The programs we've put forward to the Congress will be all-inclusive for certain categories and will include all Medicaid and Medicare patients in the future.

Every time you save energy, you save money.

The problems that we face, compared to the blessings that we have, are very few and far between.

I intend to continue to support our mutual commitment with our NATO Allies.

I plan to send promptly to the Congress a defense budget amendment to restore enough funds to continue in FY 1980 to carry out the Administration's defense program.

I will support ceilings for the National Defense Function for FY 1980 of $141.2 billion in Budget Authority and $130.6 billion in outlays.

Our strong support for Zaire is crucial.