--inspectors general have been placed in each Cabinet department to combat fraud, waste and other abuses;
--the regulatory process has been reformed through creation of the Regulatory Council, implementation of Executive Order 12044 and its requirement for cost-impact analyses, elimination of unnecessary regulation, and passage of the Regulatory Flexibility Act;
--procedures have been established to assure citizen participation in government;
--and the airline, trucking, rail and communications industries are being deregulated;
--critical social problems, many long ignored by the Federal government, have been addressed directly;
--an urban policy was developed and implemented to reverse the decline in our urban areas;
--the Social Security System was refinanced to put it on a sound financial basis;
--the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act was enacted;
--Federal assistance for education was expanded by more than 75 percent;
--the minimum wage was increased to levels needed to ease the effects of inflation;