01/16/1975
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"He surrounded himself with the ablest men he could find and sought their advice, but he made his own decisions."
"Let us all rededicate ourselves to this principle and to unstinting service to our country and to its people."
"It has your weight wrong, too."
"Without our brave American pilots, we would have witnessed, unfortunately, greater tragedy in the recent evacuation in Vietnam and in Cambodia."