03/05/1976
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"As long as I am President we are going to have an Army, a Navy, an Air Force, and a Marine Corps that are unsurpassed in military capability."
"Not a single young American is fighting or dying on any foreign battlefield tonight, and they won't."
"Every American in this country can be proud of our history and can be proud of the things that we are going to do to make that vision of our forefathers a reality."
"After so many years of runaway growth in Federal spending, I submitted a budget last January in which I cut the rate of growth in Federal spending by over half."