Jimmy Carter

I'm very proud to present this morning the maximum award to Mr. Guzick that can be presented under the Employee Incentive Program of the Federal Government.

This is a very delicate question.

As a completely nonpartisan President, I'd like to point out that of the six maximum awards that have been presented in the last 23 years, the Navy has won four of them.

Perhaps we ought to devise another incentive reward for somebody who can come up with an idea of not withholding taxes when such an award is presented.

I think there will be no American citizen in the future who will ever be electronically surveilled without a judicial warrant.

I think it will be a major step forward in our country in resolving some of the questions that cause so much dissension and so much distrust in the months gone by.

I believe in 1954, the Government established a procedure by which distinguished employees could be rewarded for suggestions or inventions that saved the American taxpayers tremendous amounts of money.

The absence of adequate recognition is something that I hope can be alleviated.

This is typical, I think, of what does occur quite often unnecessarily in our government structure, but it's also a tribute to him that his persistence and his ingenuity has brought such rich dividends to the American people.

My hope is that the Congress will pass this legislation without delay.

So, this saved us $10,500,000, Mr. Guzick, and we thank you very much for this contribution to the American people.

This is a saving of about $10 1/2 million to the Federal Government.

There is no way that any of us, including the President, can make it rain.

I believe and I hope that the future might bring us better rainfall.

We need to make sure that we shift very rapidly to the kinds of irrigation that don't waste water.

We all know that you've already suffered.

I'm glad to be out of the White House back into one of the most beautiful farming areas in the whole world.

I'm here to learn, to let you know how interested I am in your future.

Your union was born in struggle, and you've won many victories.

This Agreement, one of a series to be negotiated in accordance with that legislation, is significant because it is the first to be negotiated personally by representatives of the two governments since 1958.

In the United States, we are moving from a period of depression, despair and despondency into a time of renewed hope.

Too many people are already paying more payroll taxes than they do income taxes, and we are not going to go this route to save the social security system.

Your membership and your leadership were part of a larger society and a larger world.

Favorable action by Congress on this Agreement will constitute a tangible step in the improvement of United States-Cuban relations.

We must also make government more efficient, because we don't have the money to waste on inefficiency.