01/18/1977
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"I am opposed to that program, period."
"We will do our best as President."
"This ceremony should make us realize how precious freedom is and how dearly Americans have paid for it from the first battles for independence down to the very present."
"Our military forces, when you consider the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, and the Marines, are unsurpassed by any foreign government."