Gerald Ford

The pending upturn will result in greater demand for imported oil.

This Administration is determined to act in support of the American farmer and his best interests.

I am absolutely confident he will continue this string of successes as the new Secretary of Commerce.

Prospects for farmers, it is true, are not as bright this year as in the recent past.

I recognize that agricultural exports have been restrained twice in the past two years.

I do not intend to send the armed forces of the United States back into Vietnamese territory.

I am returning without my approval H.R. 4296, referred to as the Emergency Agricultural Act of 1975.

I believe it can if we are willing to work diligently, honestly, and more rapidly.

I strongly believe my limit is far preferable to either alternative.

The national interest requires that Congress draw a firm spending and deficit line.

I reaffirm my commitment to that $60 billion ceiling and urge in strongest possible terms its acceptance by Congress.

The evacuation has been completed.

I therefore ordered the evacuation of all American personnel remaining in South Vietnam.

I commend the personnel of the Armed Forces who accomplished it as well as Ambassador Graham Martin and the staff of his mission, who served so well under difficult conditions.

I ask all Americans to close ranks, to avoid recrimination about the past, to look ahead to the many goals we share, and to work together on the great tasks that remain to be accomplished.

This action closes a chapter in the American experience.

I often used to sit back in the rear seats of the House of Representatives and ask myself, 'Didn't they realize that a government big enough to give us everything we want is a government big enough to take from us everything we have?'

I think the policies that all of us believe in, including myself, are the right policies for this country.

Virginia is for lovers.

Disease has got to be dealt with honestly.

I happen to have great faith in the character, the strength, the vision of all of our fellow Americans.

You will hear a great address from Henry Bellmon, one of our outstanding Senators.

Let me tell you why.

We are very fortunate in the Republican Party organization at the national level to have Dick Obenshain.

We have a great obligation to them because we want America not only a leader in the world but a country that gives to all of our citizens opportunity and blessings that none of us have had in the past.