09/30/1976
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"I hope that you won't be satisfied with just having done this small thing to help a man who... has devoted his last 4 years paying off old debts."
"The South is the only part of the United States that really knows what it means to suffer the tortures of the aftermath of a war."
"I am happy to say that today it appears to have no enemies."
"This is a welcome occasion."