Gerald Ford actually said...

I have ordered the evacuation of all nonessential U.S. personnel in South Vietnam.

Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session at the Annual Convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors

04/15/1975

More Gerald Ford Quotes

The U.S. will continue to seek practical steps to avert this danger.

The Vladivostok accord will enable our two countries to establish significant limits on the strategic arms race.

We must maintain an adequate defense against potential great-power adversaries.

It can possibly be meshed with ours, and we certainly will work to achieve some accommodation.