The President's News Conference
02/07/1976
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It seemed to me that we ought to take an initiative here in Washington to indicate our full support for statehood for Pu...
I commend the report to the attention of the Congress and urge prompt action to create a Department of Energy.
He is, so far as this American is concerned, the greatest Secretary of State in the history of our Republic.
Excellence has its own reward, not only to those who strive for it but also to the free society which encourages it.