The President's News Conference
05/25/1976
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The social and economic progress to which they aspire cannot come without the political equality of statehood.
When I took office in 1974, I found many of our regulatory laws outdated and unintelligible.
The functions conferred upon the President by section 708(d) of the Defense Production Act and delegated under section 5...
I SUBMIT herewith to the Congress the Puerto Rico Statehood Act of 1977.