It is with deep regret that I have learned of the death of His Excellency Houari Boumediene, President of the Algerian Democratic and Popular Republic and President of the Council of the Revolution. President Boumediene played an outstanding role in Algeria's long struggle for independence. His devotion to duty and his contributions as an international statesman are well known. But it is for his efforts to help create and strengthen an independent, self-sufficient Algerian nation that he will be most remembered.
Rosalynn and I extend our condolences to President Boumediene's family and to the Algerian people, who have lost a leader whom the world will long remember.
Note: The following announcement was released by the White House Press Office on December 28:
Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal will head the U.S. Delegation to the state funeral of His Excellency Houari Boumediene, President of the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria and President of the Council of the Revolution, on December 29, 1978, in Algiers. Mrs. Blumenthal will accompany the Secretary.
Mr. Chip Carter will be the Personal Representative of the President.
Other representatives of the President are:
ULRIG ST. CLAIR HAYNES, JR., U.S. Ambassador to Algeria;
MRS. HAYNES;
MUHAMMAD ALI, WBC World Heavyweight Champion;
HOWARD T. BOYD of Houston, Tex., chairman of the board of El Paso Co.;
CLARK M. CLIFFORD, attorney and former Secretary of Defense;
WILLIAM C. DEMETREE OF Orlando, Fla., president, Demetree Builders;
MORRIS DRAPER, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs;
PETER KELLY of Hartford, Conn., attorney;
LOUIS MARTIN, Special Assistant to the President;
JOSEPH NELSON MEREDITH of Fresno, Calif., vice president, Paine, Webber, Jackson and Curtis, Inc.;
JOHN L. MOORE, JR., President and Chairman of the Export-Import Bank;
WILLIAM B. QUANDT staff member, National Security Council;
SARAH WEDDINGTON, Special Assistant to the President.
Jimmy Carter, Statement on the Death of President Houari Boumediene of Algeria Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/244378