Those views are grossly inaccurate.

The accountants who prepared them listed all of the deductions to which they believed I was entitled, and only those deductions.

Noting with deep satisfaction the fact that the relations between the United States and the Socialist Republic of Romania have been developing positively in many fields in the past years, the two Presidents concurrently expressed their interest in further expanding and diversifying U.S.-Romanian cooperation.

The two Presidents welcomed the continuing expansion of cultural and scientific relations between the two countries.

President and Mrs. Ceausescu expressed their cordial thanks to President and Mrs. Nixon for the friendly reception and hospitality extended to them during the visit, regarding it as an expression of the friendship and mutual esteem existing between the Romanian and American peoples.

The program is currently fraught with inconsistencies, inequities, and anomalies which cannot be corrected unless the entire framework of the program is restructured.

Veterans and widows should be treated equally with regard to income and pension payments.

Now it is important that we move on together in the development of specific proposals so that full pension reform can be enacted early in the next session of the Congress.

The VA pension program should be structured to assure that additional income flows to the neediest pensioners.

Today I am pleased to sign into law H.R. 9474, which will provide increased pensions and related benefits for over 2 million veterans, veterans' widows, and surviving children and parents.

The two Presidents solemnly reaffirmed that the bilateral relations between the United States of America and the Socialist Republic of Romania are founded on the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter, and, consistent with these, especially on the following closely interrelated principles: the right of each state to existence, independence, and sovereignty; the juridical equality of all states irrespective of their size, level of development, and political, economic and social systems; the right of each state freely to choose and develop its political, social, economic, and cultural systems; refraining from the threat or use of force in violation of the United Nations Charter, respect for territorial integrity, and inviolability of frontiers; non-intervention, direct or indirect, for any reason whatever, in the internal affairs of any other state; the duty of states to settle their international disputes by peaceful means; cooperation in various fields of international relations in order to promote international peace and security and economic and social progress.

They expressed the conviction that all nations, whatever their size, political, economic or social systems or level of development, should contribute to a durable world peace, founded on freedom, equality, justice and respect for human rights.

President Nixon reaffirmed his commitment to seek authority to provide most-favored-nation tariff treatment for Romania in recognition of the importance of this reciprocal principle as a factor in international relations and in the development and diversification of economic relations between the two countries.

There is hereby delegated to the Administrator all the authority vested in the President by the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973.

A policy of respecting the independence and sovereignty of every nation, large and small, in the world, and a policy of always recognizing that unless each nation has independence, and that that independence is not infringed upon and not threatened by other nations, there cannot be real peace, lasting peace, in the world.

Executive Order No. 11726 of June 29, 1973, is hereby superseded to the extent that it is inconsistent with this Order.

We are happy that you and your wife will be able to visit not only Washington but a number of other cities in our country.

That is what U.S. foreign policy is really about.