05/25/1976
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"Thank you very, very much, Jim Thompson, the next Governor of the great State of Illinois."
"Every American in this country can be proud of our history and can be proud of the things that we are going to do to make that vision of our forefathers a reality."
"I have no fear for the future for America."
"After so many years of runaway growth in Federal spending, I submitted a budget last January in which I cut the rate of growth in Federal spending by over half."