The Report indicates that 'the Council has tried to estimate as realistically as possible the funds which are required to implement the National Program' of the National Heart and Lung Institute.

The United States has made every effort to assist in finding a solution to the problems in this part of the world.

In view of the foregoing considerations, I must deny your request for support of your Federal Legislative proposal.

As soon as you issue a statement that you are prepared to release the crew members you hold unconditionally and immediately, we will promptly cease military operations.

The Mayaguez is still anchored off Koh Tang Island.

I have no doubt that the adoption of sound budget policies would have a substantial and beneficial effect in both short and long term credit of the City of New York.

The Institute is now well advanced in its program directed toward specific and pressing educational problems.

I know that the Congress will join with the Administration in supporting and strengthening the National Institute of Education.

I remain committed to a strong Federal role in research and development in education.

I was deeply impressed with the problems you and the City Council must face in the next few weeks in meeting the financial problems of the great City of New York.

Fiscal responsibility is essential for cities, states and the Federal Government.

We welcome this development, if true.

The American farmer does a terrific job and will do a better job without the restraints this bill would have imposed.

The bill would have retired inflation and set back the recent progress made in freeing farmers from Federal controls.

I will continue to fight for Federal fiscal responsibility and welcome this show of support.

I COMMEND the House of Representatives' action in sustaining, by a comfortable margin, my veto of the Emergency Agricultural Act of 1975.

I am pleased to announce my intention to nominate Lowell W. Perry.

The durability of our inter-American system rests on its ability to adapt to changing hemispheric and world conditions.

International cooperation that assures mutual respect among nations is more essential than ever.

We recognize that every State has the right to adopt its own system of government and its own economic and social organization.

There is no reason we cannot conquer the last vestiges of poverty in a hemisphere which is so richly endowed.

Strength and progress come from cooperation rather than from conflict.

The world we now live in is increasingly fluid and complex, containing many new centers of power.

There is absolutely no substitute for person-to-person relationships.

The knowledge you bring to this country as you study in our universities and colleges gives us the benefit of your unique backgrounds.