The President's News Conference
03/05/1975
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Cash awards totaling $1,343,224 were paid for these adopted suggestions.
Our country and all mankind will always need people like you whose energy, whose imagination reveal our country's greate...
Of the 119,256 suggestions which were submitted by military personnel during Fiscal Year 1976, 19,375 were adopted.
I urge them to continue their good work.