Gerald Ford actually said...

"Wherever the United States Ship Nimitz shows her flag, she will be seen as a solid symbol of United States strength, United States resolve."

"It has your weight wrong, too."

"He surrounded himself with the ablest men he could find and sought their advice, but he made his own decisions."

"Looking back on a period of my own life, one of the things of which I am the proudest is that I can say, 'I served under Admiral Nimitz in the Pacific.'"