The President's News Conference
02/16/1976
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Funds appropriated to the President for carrying out the Act shall be deemed to be allocated to the Secretary of Defense...
I believe I speak for all of us when I say that Secretary Kissinger, whom we are honoring tonight, we have been impresse...
I urge them to continue their good work.
The social and economic progress to which they aspire cannot come without the political equality of statehood.