Gerald Ford actually said...

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

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

The functions conferred upon the President by section 708(d) of the Defense Production Act and delegated under section 501(a) of this order,...

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