Remarks in Grand Junction, Colorado
11/01/1974
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Of the 119,256 suggestions which were submitted by military personnel during Fiscal Year 1976, 19,375 were adopted.
The Medals of Freedom you are about to receive are the highest civilian honor that our country can bestow.
He is, so far as this American is concerned, the greatest Secretary of State in the history of our Republic.
Of those suggestions submitted, more than 275,000 have been adopted with resultant tangible first-year benefits in exces...