Gerald Ford actually said...

I promise you I will fight for the kind of a program that we need, that we can have, that is essential for freedom for all of us in the futu...

I decided at that time that the decisions I would make in the months to follow would be decisions that would not be related to politics but ...

I had faith that America would work its way out of its economic difficulties rather than trying to spend its way out of its difficulties.

And Betty and I will never let you down in the next 4 years.