Gerald Ford actually said...

I will lead this Nation on the path of peace through strength.

Not a single young American is fighting and dying today on any foreign battlefield, and I intend to keep it that way.

More Americans were working in 1976 than ever before in the history of this country, nearly 88 million.

I have held the line on Federal spending with 66 vetoes, which saved the hard-pressed taxpayer something like $9 billion.