Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States

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Federal Register Division, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1994
"Containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President", 1956-1992.

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Page 2496 - Treaty undertakes not to provide: (a) source or special fissionable material, or (b) equipment or material especially designed or prepared for the processing, use or production of special fissionable material...
Page 2499 - Act of 1978, the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991...
Page 2211 - America, find that the proliferation of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons ("weapons of mass destruction") and of the means of delivering such weapons, continues to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States, and hereby, declare a national emergency to deal with that threat.
Page 2390 - America, find that the policies and actions of the Government of Nicaragua constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States and hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat.
Page 2152 - Any other act intended to cause death or serious bodily injury to a civilian, or to any other person not taking an active part in the hostilities in a situation of armed conflict, when the purpose of such act, by its nature or context, is to intimidate a population, or to compel a government or an international organization to do or to abstain from doing any act.
Page 2452 - ... that without free speech and assembly discussion would be futile; that with them, discussion affords ordinarily adequate protection against the dissemination of noxious doctrine; that the greatest menace to freedom is an inert people; that public discussion is a political duty; and that this should be a fundamental principle of the American Government.
Page 2152 - To the Senate of the United States: With a view to receiving the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification...
Page 2444 - This Order is intended only to improve the internal management of the Federal government, and is not intended to create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law by a party against the United States, its agencies, its officers or any person.
Page 2442 - This order is intended only to improve the internal management of the executive branch and is not intended to, nor does it create any right, benefit, or trust responsibility, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or equity by a party against the United States, its agencies, its officers, or any person.
Page 2452 - Yet it is elementary that the successful conduct of international diplomacy and the maintenance of an effective national defense require both confidentiality and secrecy. Other nations can hardly deal with this Nation in an atmosphere of mutual trust unless they can be assured that their confidences will be kept.

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