Remarks at a President Ford Committee Reception in El Paso
04/09/1976
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Cash awards totaling $1,343,224 were paid for these adopted suggestions.
The Medals of Freedom you are about to receive are the highest civilian honor that our country can bestow.
Enlisted personnel received $1,104,328 in awards, which represents 82 percent of the total cash awards paid.
Our country and all mankind will always need people like you whose energy, whose imagination reveal our country's greate...