Gerald Ford: “I hope that as this vote proceeds, Mr. Chairman, I will say to my friends on the other side of the aisle that some of us…”

“I hope that as this vote proceeds, Mr. Chairman, I will say to my friends on the other side of the aisle that some of us who are struggling with this, please refrain in your press statements and releases from referring to anybody on this side of the aisle as being unpatriotic. I think there are legitimate questions about how this was brought to the floor, about the specificity associated with it, about the term of our stay there. I have been on the ground, as I know many of my colleagues on the other side have there in the region, so I would hope that we can all refrain from referring to anyone in this body, anyone in this Chamber, Democrat or Republican, as being unpatriotic.”