We hope that each of you will share the traditional joys of this Holy season with your family and friends.

I am particularly and personally grateful for your unhesitating support.

I accept your resignation as Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Management and Budget.

I AM pleased to have signed the Safe Drinking Water Act (S. 433).

The cooperation between France and NATO is a significant factor in the security of Europe.

We must adopt consistent economic policies in order to be effective in avoiding unemployment while fighting inflation.

We reaffirm the continuing support of the United States for efforts to achieve European unity.

The personal contact and discussion in this meeting had demonstrated accord on many questions.

We regard it as important that all parties concerned should be better informed of their respective interests and concerns.

The friendship of our two countries spans the oceans as well as the centuries.

Thank the United States Senate for approving the foreign trade bill.

Thanks to their strong, bipartisan efforts we are now in a position to launch a trade program that will strengthen our economy.

The Senate has demonstrated a willingness to set aside party differences when the interests of our Nation are at stake.

This is an opportunity for us to become personally acquainted and to discuss the serious issues which confront our two countries.

I am more confident than ever that working together we will continue to develop comprehensive programs to meet all our Nation's needs.

We are especially grateful to the leaders of both parties.

I am confident that our nations will reaffirm the tradition of Franco-American cooperation in great endeavors.

We must combine our efforts with those of our friends and our allies if we are to meet the challenges of the last quarter of the 20th century.