The President's News Conference
02/25/1975
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The functions conferred upon the President by section 708(d) of the Defense Production Act and delegated under section 5...
I believe the answer to this question is unequivocally and categorically in the affirmative.
He is, so far as this American is concerned, the greatest Secretary of State in the history of our Republic.
The social and economic progress to which they aspire cannot come without the political equality of statehood.