Exchange With Reporters on Arrival at Peoria, Illinois.
03/04/1976
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The experience we had this last year worked out very well in getting some restraint on the growth of pay increases in the Federal Government...
I make no such promises. I offer no such illusions.
My request is based on a careful assessment of the international situation and the contingencies we must be prepared to meet.
We must not continue drifting in the direction of bigger and bigger government.