On the recordApril 3, 1975
This tragedy must not deter us from offering new hope for the living.
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presidency.ucsb.eduThis tragedy must not deter us from offering new hope for the living.
Statement on the Crash of a C-5A Cargo Plane on a Mercy Flight From Saigon, Republic of Vietnam
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I believe it presents a candid appraisal of what we have learned and what remains to be done.
There is no excuse, for example, for the Federal Government to have 15 different child nutrition programs spending over $3 billion per year and still have 700,000 children from families below the poverty line who receive no aid.
Of those suggestions submitted, more than 275,000 have been adopted with resultant tangible first-year benefits in excess of $873,000,000.
I SUBMIT herewith to the Congress the Puerto Rico Statehood Act of 1977.