The President's News Conference
10/28/1974
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We want everybody to have a job that wants a job--a meaningful job, not a dead-end job under some of these subsidized programs.
There’s no reason why anybody in this country should go broke just to get well.
I will not concede a single State, I will not concede a single vote.
The United States is number one, and under the Ford administration we are going to keep it number one, period.