America has a sense of unity today.

The tyranny of double-digit inflation is our common enemy in 1974.

It was not a revolution to tear down what the colonists had, but to preserve the freedoms.

Love and liberty are two pretty good words with which to start a nation.

I have decided that the first priority for us as a nation, domestically, is an all-out war against inflation.

I thank you not only for what you have contributed but the performance that I think has been superb.

This was the first group, and I shared the apprehension that some have expressed.

I think you gentlemen and ladies have set a very high example for those meetings that shall follow.

This isn't a problem that only a President can solve.

It is not a problem that only the Congress can solve.

I think it illustrates the fact that Spanish-speaking Americans were in the very vanguard of the settlement of the new world.

Deaths rose from 34,700 in 1950 to top 53,000 in 1966.

Improvements in the Nation's highways are also making a major contribution to progress in traffic safety.

We believe, in this Administration, as others have, that this important growing part of our American population should be recognized for what they can do for all of us and for what they have done for America over the 200 years, nearly, of…

I am pleased and honored to have the opportunity to do it with a man as outstanding as Alan Greenspan.

I also call upon my fellow Americans to rededicate themselves to the principle of full and equal opportunity for all citizens.

I call upon all the people of the United States, especially the education community and those organizations concerned with the protection of human rights, to observe that week with appropriate ceremonies and activities.

Mrs. Ford joins me in extending to his wonderful wife and family our deepest condolences.