So, I congratulate you, Admiral, and now we will have the ceremony.

What this event shows, far more than money, is that the heart of America goes out to those who suffer every place in the world.

America is a rich country, America is a strong country, but when it counts, America has a very big heart.

Evidence has continued to build up during 1973 indicating that we are now on the way to winning the battle against this grave problem.

We want to be in a position so that nobody can cut our lifeline.

First, to increase the supply of heating oil that will be available this winter, we must adjust production schedules and divert petroleum which might normally go for the production of gasoline to the production of more heating oil.

The capacity for self-sufficiency in energy is a great goal.

But everybody is going to have to do some sacrificing in order to handle the energy crisis.

The greatness about America is that when we've got problems, we just get out and solve them.

As a result of our policies, that America is at peace throughout the world, that there is no American being drafted anyplace.

We think that means that here in this great Volunteer State, and here particularly in Memphis, that we have a lot of good friends.

Let's make sure that we have by that time--and that is only 7 years away--that we have total independence, so that America hasn't to depend on any other nation in the world for the energy we need for our jobs and the rest.

And so, I have an announcement to make today.

Thank God that war is history

As Carl Vinson was speaking, I was thinking of my first days in the House of Representatives back in 1947.

Today, whether it is halfway around the world to the People's Republic of China in Peking, or a third of the way around the world to the Kremlin in Moscow, or wherever we go, we must realize that there cannot be real peace in the world unless there is developed a structure of peace which covers not only the small nations but particularly the great powers that have the key to peace or to war in their hands.

America has got to be strong

Well, Mr. Quinn, I would certainly not be standing here answering these questions unless I had a firm belief that we could keep the republic, that we must keep it, not only for ourselves but for the whole world.