Gerald Ford actually said...

As President, I'm constantly aware that the ultimate authority of our Republic is not in the White House; it is in the people.

I will secure that peace through strength and through perseverance and leave that legacy of peace for our children and for their children.

Your generation bears a very special task--the preservation of individualism-but you do not bear that task alone.

I have done a good job under the toughest kinds of circumstances, and I would appreciate your wholehearted support.