Gerald Ford actually said...

I welcome you not only as Prime Minister of Ireland but as a kinsman, very distant in genealogy but very close in affinity.

Remarks of Welcome to Prime Minister Liam M. Cosgrave of Ireland

03/16/1976

More Gerald Ford Quotes

Not a single young American is fighting and dying today on any foreign battlefield, and I intend to keep it that way.

I have held the line on Federal spending with 66 vetoes, which saved the hard-pressed taxpayer something like $9 billion.

I will lead this Nation on the path of peace through strength.

More Americans were working in 1976 than ever before in the history of this country, nearly 88 million.