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Document 253399 JIMMY CARTER The President urges a Congressman to support his energy plan. Important TLS: "Jimmy" as 39th U.S. President, 1p, 8x10½. The White House, Washington, 1978 October 11. To Democratic Congressman Robert Garcia of New York. In part: "Of the tasks remaining for the 95th Congress, none is more important than enactment of a national energy plan. Adoption of the full package, which includes provisions on conservation, coal conversion, utility rate reform, energy taxes and credits, and natural gas pricing, is essential to our economic health and future security. The bill establishes a responsible, balanced and fair framework for meeting our energy needs. It will give us the tools to save about $2.5 million barrels of oil per day by 1985, with a reduction of more than $12 billion in our trade deficit. It will demonstrate that as a Nation we have the courage and strength to face up to our energy problem. This in turn will help strengthen the U.S. dollar, whose decline over the last year has added a full 1% to the Consumer Price Index. The natural gas portion of the energy plan is particularly important, since it contributes well over half of the entire plan's oil savings...Industrial users will now be able to rely upon increased supplies of natural gas instead of foreign oil to meet their needs. In addition, the legislation will make possible construction of the Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline, which will provide 800 billion cubic feet a year of additional gas supplies...The Congress has done a good job of bringing this difficult task to a final stage after eighteen months of dedicated work...." On December 17, 1978, OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) announced they were scheduling oil price increases of over 14 percent for 1981. By June 1979, a gasoline shortage had spread across the nation and many states adopted odd-even day rationing (odd numbered license plates on odd dates of the month). In this letter, President Carter mentions a one percent decline to the Consumer Price Index because of the decline of the U.S. dollar. In 1979 the CPI rose more than 13 percent, the largest inflation jump since 1946. In 1980, President Carter vetoed a bill that would have prevented a fee being placed on imported oil. On June 6, 1980, the Democrat-controlled Congress voted to override the President's veto. It was the first time since 1952 that a Congress controlled by the President's own party voted to override his veto. The recipient of this letter, ROBERT GARCIA, represented the Bronx in Congress from 1978-1990, when he resigned after being convicted of bribery. Fine condition. SEE IF DOCUMENT 253399 IS FOR SALE RIGHT NOW!!
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