Gerald Ford actually said...

This action will mean substantial cuts in many grant military aid programs of great importance to the United States.

Letter to Senator Edward W. Brooke Expressing Reservations About the Foreign Assistance Appropriations Bill.

03/28/1976

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What is essential now is that we keep our nerve and our essential unity as a powerful but peace-loving Nation.

The facts are, we can afford no more delays.

I believe that the program of the previous four or five Presidents was aimed in the right direction.

I will reject any advice to pull down the Stars and Stripes and sail home from the seas of the world.