Gerald Ford actually said...

I believe I speak for all of us when I say that Secretary Kissinger, whom we are honoring tonight, we have been impressed by our association...

He is, so far as this American is concerned, the greatest Secretary of State in the history of our Republic.

Of the 119,256 suggestions which were submitted by military personnel during Fiscal Year 1976, 19,375 were adopted.

Of those suggestions submitted, more than 275,000 have been adopted with resultant tangible first-year benefits in excess of $873,000,000.