Disease has got to be dealt with honestly.

You will hear a great address from Henry Bellmon, one of our outstanding Senators.

We have a great obligation to them because we want America not only a leader in the world but a country that gives to all of our citizens opportunity and blessings that none of us have had in the past.

I happen to have great faith in the character, the strength, the vision of all of our fellow Americans.

I strongly recommend that the Congress act to continue this highly successful and important new element of American Federalism well in advance of the expiration date.

The expiration of the present General Revenue Sharing Law is coincident with the year in which the Nation celebrates its bicentennial.

This program has been a resounding success.

I urge the Congress at its earliest convenience to begin deliberations on the renewal of the State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972.

The genius of American government is the Federal system of shared sovereignty.

I know there are some people here from Michigan.

I would like to take this opportunity to express my very deep gratitude and appreciation for what the Advertising Council has done over the years.

This year's Manpower Report, therefore, includes an interim review of some recent research findings on the development of methods to determine the manpower impact of Government program and policy changes.

We can meet adversity, that we will be successful.

I am sending to Congress the 13th annual Manpower Report of the President.

We have a distressed economy.

The passage of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act in December, 1973, was a landmark development in the decentralization of manpower program design and operation responsibilities to State and local government units.

It is considerably less certain that such programs can exert significant positive impact on national unemployment levels.

The Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act has made supplementary unemployment compensation available to experienced workers who have exhausted unemployment insurance benefits.

We are going to move forward, we are taking a fresh start, and we are going to be successful both at home and abroad.

I think there is a need also for us as leaders in this country to talk about the good things.

I hereby waive the application of subsections (a) and (b) of section 402 of said Act with respect to the Socialist Republic of Romania.

It is an urgent need for the country to mobilize, and I quote here, 'the most powerful and creative industrial nation that ever existed on this Earth'.

Eddie's best monument will be his achievements, his own record as a public servant.

There are few men in the United States Congress that I have known longer or respected more than the man that all of us honor here on this occasion today.

I compliment all of you in this great part of our country for showing the superb judgment in seeing to it that you are represented by Eddie Hebert.