The President's News Conference
09/15/1974
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I SUBMIT herewith to the Congress the Puerto Rico Statehood Act of 1977.
The budget is the President's blueprint for the operation of the Government in the year ahead.
I believe it presents a candid appraisal of what we have learned and what remains to be done.
He is, so far as this American is concerned, the greatest Secretary of State in the history of our Republic.