Remarks at a President Ford Committee Reception in Springfield
03/04/1976
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I have long felt that they had made tremendous progress, very significant economic and social and political progress.
Let me voice our country's deep gratitude and great appreciation, not only to you but to all those who helped you achiev...
Our country and all mankind will always need people like you whose energy, whose imagination reveal our country's greate...
The social and economic progress to which they aspire cannot come without the political equality of statehood.