04/09/1976
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"I believe that the program of the previous four or five Presidents was aimed in the right direction."
"I will reject any advice to pull down the Stars and Stripes and sail home from the seas of the world."
"We stand ready to defend ourselves and support our allies as surely as we always have."
"First, we are taking all the humanitarian measures we can to relieve the innocent civilian refugees."