Remarks at a Bicentennial Celebration in Saginaw, Michigan
05/15/1976
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Excellence has its own reward, not only to those who strive for it but also to the free society which encourages it.
Cash awards totaling $1,343,224 were paid for these adopted suggestions.
It is now time to act.
Of the 119,256 suggestions which were submitted by military personnel during Fiscal Year 1976, 19,375 were adopted.