We pay tribute to the long, long friendship as well as the kinship of the Irish and the American people.

The United States has proposed a series of major economic initiatives providing leadership in efforts to improve trade and monetary arrangements.

The United States is committed to assisting developing countries in their efforts to achieve economic progress.

We honor the history of our Nation and the great contributions that all of you from Ireland have made to American independence, as well as growth.

We have dedicated ourselves to peace and to progress of not only our nations but all peoples.

Multinational corporations have made major contributions to world economic development and will continue to do so in the future.

We agreed that sustained, stable economic growth in the industrial nations will be facilitated by our cooperative efforts.

We have neutralized a great destabilizing factor in our grain markets.

I am convinced that those programs will win not only the primaries but it will win the general election on November 2, 1976.

With that kind of spirit and that kind of dedication, we are going to keep up our unbroken string of victories.

I think a good many people there know that I have attended Lincoln Day Dinners as far back as 1946, and it seems that every one of them gets better and better.

I hope that what I have done justifies continued faith in the future.

But we can make it that way by being proud that we are Americans and proud of America.

We think we have a good program.

I pledge to you, the younger people, and all above that age group, that as far as this administration is concerned, we are going to be for a strong America both at home as well as abroad.

I call upon all Americans to pray that day, each in his or her own way, for the strength to meet the challenges of the future with the same courage and dedication Americans showed the world two centuries ago.

I hereby transmit to the Congress the fifth quarterly report of the Council on Wage and Price Stability.

Obviously, we were deeply concerned about the fact that the water was high and the power was out.