Hence, this bill seeks to restore the authority necessary to fulfill my statutory obligation to study and propose Executive reorganizations.

Therefore, I urge prompt action by the Congress to extend this authority and renew the usefulness of this statute as a tool of good government.

The Council also is playing an important role in restraining any adverse economic impact of proposed Government actions.

I urge that this Reorganization Plan authority again be extended for a four-year period.

It really is a tribute to the free enterprise system and the people who are deeply involved in it.

We have not eliminated them all. Some still remain—barriers of poverty, ignorance, prejudice, just to mention a few.

The key to the American success story, as I see it for nearly 200 years now, has been a single word, and we should emphasize it and reemphasize it—opportunity.

I am deeply appreciative of what each of you has contributed toward making that slogan a reality.

You, by your own contributions, can help others achieve what you have achieved by work, and that makes America work.

I am convinced that my prediction of last summer was one of the most accurate I could have made.

I think these two alliance programs are extremely important.

Your objective is a very simple one: to place veterans, the handicapped, and the disadvantaged people in private sector jobs where they have the greatest opportunity to do for themselves.

It is a great privilege and pleasure to welcome you all to this White House reception.

This task can be met only by reducing vulnerability to weaknesses in our economy and energy capacities.

Our mission of mercy will continue.

Let no adversary or potential enemies of the United States imagine that America can be safely challenged.

This tragedy must not deter us from offering new hope for the living.

I share your belief in America.

The Bay Area now offers the world an international center that represents the best of what Americans can do.

I AM deeply saddened at the loss of so many lives in the crash of the United States C-5A mercy flight today near Saigon.

The magic of San Francisco and the Bay Area was not conjured up in the bureaus and agencies of the Federal Government.

I will never forget, if I might digress a moment, over the 25 years that I had the privilege of serving in the House of Representatives.

Your region is a great source of America's pride.

The United States has been doing and will continue to do its utmost to assist these people.

We will do what has to be done, what can be done, as a practical matter.