Gerald Ford actually said...

Cash awards totaling $1,442,536 were paid for these adopted suggestions, based not only on the tangible first-year benefits of $74,347,607.94 which were realized therefrom, but also on many additional benefits and improvements of an intangible nature.

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Message to the Congress Transmitting Reports on the Military Incentive Awards Program for 1975

01/12/1977

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