I want them to know--and all the people in these States to know--that we are available to help them.

I intend to sign the emergency request for Florida Monday, and signed one for Colorado yesterday.

U.S. Ambassador-designate to the United Nations Andrew Young will represent the United States at celebrations in Tanzania and Nigeria.

on Government actions to deal with the natural gas shortage emergency

the President's initiatives for the employment of Vietnam era veterans

Sometimes we take for granted that an acknowledgment of sin, an acknowledgment of the need for humility permeates the consciousness of our people.

I'm very proud that Ray Marshall has agreed to be Secretary of Labor.

The most constantly repeated admonition from Christ was against pride.

I think what he said exemplifies the finest aspirations of those who are assembled here this morning.

I wanted someone who not only was a theoretician or a distinguished economist--which Ray Marshall is certainly capable of exhibiting--but I also wanted somebody who knows in practical terms the impact of unemployment on an individual human…

a sense of communion that we can have under God throughout the world ought to convince us that we are not superior.

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's capacity for injustice makes democracy necessary.

I have selected, and the Senate has now confirmed, a man who will not just be an adequate Attorney General but who will be a great Attorney General.

One of the most crucial appointments that a President can make is that of Attorney General.

The severity of the present emergency will be significantly reduced if Americans respond to my request of January 21 to turn down their thermostats to 65° in the daytime and lower at night.

This bill is designed to assure that American homes do not go cold while natural gas continues to be used for lower priority uses.

I know that some of them have not been here before.

Many natural gas systems have already largely depleted the storage fields from which they must draw to meet essential human needs if the cold weather persists.

It was a symbolic separation of both disaffected people and disadvantaged people from the core of justice.

This is a great day in my own life and, I believe, a great day in the life of our Nation.

I thank you. We are partners together, and I hope we will do better in governing our country than we have in entertaining each other this evening.

I want to emphasize that this legislation is not submitted as a substitute for developing a natural gas policy as a part of an overall energy policy, which our country so obviously lacks.

I will walk the straight and narrow path, Senator, between what is right and what is wrong.

I strongly urge that the Congress give this legislation its immediate attention.

I think this is a very good comparison between his experience and background and capability to perform this important job, compared to my own.