Jimmy Carter

The historical complexity of this issue indicates that perseverance, patience, and political courage are required on both sides if a just and lasting settlement is to be achieved.

I will nominate John B. Gabusi, of Washington, D.C., to be Assistant Secretary of Education for Management.

I am sure after this visit by the Prime Minister there will be at least 65 million Italo-Americans in our country.

To threaten basic human rights with terrorism, and to threaten the rule of law with terrorism and with international violence is indeed a pressure for friends to stand together.

I believe it prudent not to recommend changes in the law.

I think it's a measure not of weakness, but of strength.

I will nominate Carl William Fischer to be Assistant Secretary of Education for Budget and Planning.

There is no way under any possible political party or any possible President that our Nation could ever be separated from a feeling of affinity and mutual purpose for the people of Italy.

Therefore, as I noted in my message of August 27, 1979, I asked the Secretary of the Treasury to prepare a report on this complicated subject, which, as you know, has involved the Congress and this Administration in long deliberations in…

The decision by Soviet authorities to deprive Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov of his honors and to send him into exile arouses worldwide indignation.

Our American Red Cross is in dire financial need because of vast sums expended for disaster relief during a three-month period last summer.

As President of the United States and Honorary Chairman of the American Red Cross, I urge all members of the Federal establishment and members of the Armed Forces to support this vital voluntary organization.

The arrest of Dr. Sakharov is a scar on their system that the Soviet leaders cannot erase by hurling abuse at him and seeking to mask the truth.

His voice may be silenced in exile, but the truths he has spoken serve as a monument to his courage and an inspiration to man's enduring quest for dignity and freedom.

This denial of basic freedoms is a direct violation of the Helsinki Accords and a blow to the aspirations of all mankind to establish respect for human rights.

I have just signed a Presidential Proclamation designating the Month of March as Red Cross Month.

The Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan must be met with a firm and united Western response.

I do hereby proclaim the month of February, 1980, as American Heart Month.

I will nominate Robert E. White, of Melrose, Mass., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to El Salvador.

The selection of Mr. Clifford underscores the importance that President Carter attaches to continuing good relations with India.

The exports being curtailed by this action make a significant contribution to the military potential of the Soviet Union that is detrimental to the national security of the United States.

We must make clear to the Soviet Union that it cannot trample on the independence of other states and at the same time carry on business as usual with the rest of the world.

The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the installation of a puppet government is an extremely serious threat to peace.

The absence of such controls would prove detrimental to the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States.

These extraordinary circumstances demand prompt and forceful response by the United States.