Proclamation 4440—Prayer for Peace Memorial Day, May 31, 1976
05/18/1976
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The budget is the President's blueprint for the operation of the Government in the year ahead.
The social and economic progress to which they aspire cannot come without the political equality of statehood.
I SUBMIT herewith to the Congress the Puerto Rico Statehood Act of 1977.
He is, so far as this American is concerned, the greatest Secretary of State in the history of our Republic.