Jimmy Carter

Our programs are good, our American economy is strong and sound.

We can use the power and the prestige and the strength of our Nation as a superpower to feed other people.

I'm doing all we can about it.

Our country is so strong and so blessed that we ought to be on our knees thanking God for what we have in this country.

I would think that would be an excessive time for us to wait.

For these reasons, I find it necessary to prohibit the following:

We have the best diet, the most plentiful supplies of food.

Herewith is my report to Congress on the first five years' operation of the U.S. Generalized System of Preferences (GSP).

Those things don't change.

The job is a big one; there's no doubt about that.

The measures which I am announcing today are still nonbelligerent in nature.

Those under Sections 24, 27 and 28 of the Act to the Secretary of Defense.

Those under Section 43(c) of the Act to the Secretary of Defense.

This legislation embodies my commitment to a strong and vital Federal system.

Our goal is to conclude it by May the 26th, and I think we have made good progress toward that goal.

I herewith report 53 proposals to rescind a total of $1,472.7 million in budget authority previously provided by the Congress.

We need to achieve a balanced budget and disciplined restraint in Federal spending.

These rescission proposals and deferrals are an integral part of my recently announced anti-inflation program.

We are delighted at the progress that has been made.

I hope Congress will join me in this effort.

Will help achieve a balanced Federal budget in 1981.

I am proposing today that the revenue sharing program be extended only for local governments.

It will increase competition, conserve energy, improve service to small communities, and eliminate arbitrary and inefficient restrictions on the routes truckers can drive and the goods they can carry.

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, including the Refugee Act of 1980, it is hereby ordered as follows.

Israel should be strengthened, for Israel's sake—it deserves, we suffered so much, we lost so many.