The approximately $9 billion Defense Strategic and Critical Materials stockpile provides substantial protection against a possible interruption in strategic and critical supplies for national security purposes.

I ask all Americans to remember the precious legacy of liberty we enjoy.

Here's what the United States stands for; and here are our aspirations for a relationship with the Soviet Union.

This bill represents an acceptable compromise.

H.R. 2653 is objectionable because it would authorize appropriations which are $4.4 million in excess of the Administration's request of $42.3 million for Department of Commerce export control activities.

I am encouraged by the changes we've seen.

I want to ask you to take a moment sometime before the last of the fireworks light the sky to think about what this day means, to think about how fortunate we Americans are.

I believe that this bill represents an acceptable compromise.

S. 694, which I signed into law today, extends until April 1, 1990, the authorization for the Nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR).

I am especially pleased that this bill will provide the long overdue additional funding for our Nation's veterans.

Our Fourth of July wish for all Americans is a day of enjoyment, a day spent with family and friends, a day celebrated the traditional way, with picnics, parades, and fireworks.

I do hereby proclaim July 2, 1989, as National Literacy Day.