As President, I look forward to working with John during the 94th Congress.

This proclamation that I am about to sign is the first step down the long and difficult road toward regaining our energy freedom.

We need a program that will make us invulnerable to the possibility of foreign oil embargoes or any other action.

I pledge to you that I will continue in the search for new measures to promote that cause.

We need fair tax relief, the tax relief that will help not only the poor but also the middle class.

I do hereby designate the week beginning January 19, 1975, as National Jaycee Week.

Except for energy, I will ask for no new spending programs and will fight to reduce the growth of Federal spending before it is too late.

I am very pleased to have signed a second international agreement, entitled the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction.

I HAVE signed today the instruments of ratification of the Geneva Protocol of 1925 and the Biological Weapons Convention.

Today, in more than 7,000 chapters in each of the 50 states and the Nation's capital, some 300,000 Jaycees serve this time-honored ideal in a modern setting.

It is my earnest hope that all nations will find it in their interest to join in this prohibition against biological weapons.

The White House door is open to you and your associates.

I say, let's join together in starting the process, maintaining forward momentum, and in getting Congressional committees to meet and get down to the specific cases.

I ask you to put your tremendous forces, your efforts behind the drive for an American energy independence.

Some of our basic freedoms originated in our earliest days from actions taken in the respective States.

Our government today is strengthened by the firm foundation that State legislatures give to government throughout the whole United States.

State legislatures perform an invaluable function.

The greater emphasis today on the importance, the essentiality of affirmative action at the State level is going to grow and grow and grow.