I also want you to know that I am grateful for your willingness to remain available to serve your country when needed.
You and Mary have been a source of great strength to Lady Bird and me.
Your leadership has been vital to our record economic progress.
It is never easy to part with a member of our official family or adequately to convey how much we will miss him.
This just carries out a commitment that we have made.
But we do plan definitely to withhold $1.1 billion, or to defer it.
One of the handicaps we have is the appropriation bills came the latter part of the year.
We propose to reduce the program level not by $3 billion, but by $5.3 billion.
We plan definitely to withhold $1.1 billion, or to defer it.
We are trying to withhold the appropriated funds that Congress gave us to the extent of $1 billion.
We have our Budget Message about in shape.