Gerald Ford

I urge the Congress to give these proposals prompt and favorable consideration.

I appreciate your willingness to stay on as a member of the Commission during the next month.

We agreed to act to promote continued economic and financial cooperation, including joint investments.

Some of these are outdated and have outlived their usefulness.

We reaffirmed our intention to encourage the further expansion of cultural cooperation.

I want you to know that you take with you my very best wishes for every future happiness and success.

I look forward, Mr. Prime Minister, to the further strengthening of American-Yugoslav cooperation.

You have earned their thanks as well as my own.

I raise my glass to your health, Mr. Prime Minister, and to the bridge between our two countries.

It is with sincere gratitude for your devoted service to our Nation that I accept your resignation as General Counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

These programs requiring the Government to borrow in the capital markets have contributed to the problem by adding to upward pressure on interest rates.

This relationship, Mr. Prime Minister, is anchored in a strong mutual interest in Yugoslavia's independence, its integrity, and its unity.

To achieve these objectives, the bill permits institutions engaged in serving small depositors more flexibility both in obtaining and investing funds.

You have established a record of accomplishment in which you can take pride.

The talks took place in an atmosphere of cordiality and openness.

I am resubmitting the Financial Institutions Act, with the assurance that the many months of debate and consideration have brought all of us nearer to basic agreement on this important reform.

The two sides expressed satisfaction that continued progress has been registered in bilateral cooperation between the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the United States of America.

Adviser to the Secretary (Counselor, Economic Policy Board), Department of the Treasury, to terminate effective June 1, 1975.

Of those suggestions submitted, more than 255,000 have been adopted with resultant tangible first year benefits in excess of $799,000,000.

More than 1.6 million suggestions submitted since that time attest to the success which the program has had as a means of motivating military men and women to seek ways of reducing costs and improving efficiency.

Of the nearly 146,009 suggestions which were submitted by military personnel during Fiscal Year 1974, 19,810 were adopted.

Cash awards totaling $1,358,818 were paid for these adopted suggestions, based not only on the tangible first-year benefits of $71,461,841 which were realized therefrom, but also on many additional benefits and improvements of an…

I commend the Congress for initiating hearings on this important problem.

One of my principle goals is the establishment of strong partnerships among Federal, State and local governments.

This program will extend for five years the 1970 Airport and Airway Development Act.