10/21/1976
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"Without any question, without any reservation."
"I decided that we could not afford in America an extended period of continued turmoil."
"Over a year after the last American combatant had left Vietnam, the status of thousands of our countrymen...remains unresolved."
"There is hereby established in the Executive Office of the President a board of 9 members, which shall be known as the Presidential Clemency Board."