Gerald Ford

Virginia, because of its elections in a year prior to a national convention, sort of tells the rest of the Nation the direction in which we ought to go as a country.

The genius of American government is the Federal system of shared sovereignty.

I urge the Congress at its earliest convenience to begin deliberations on the renewal of the State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972.

This program has been a resounding success.

I strongly recommend that the Congress act to continue this highly successful and important new element of American Federalism well in advance of the expiration date.

The expiration of the present General Revenue Sharing Law is coincident with the year in which the Nation celebrates its bicentennial.

The Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act has made supplementary unemployment compensation available to experienced workers who have exhausted unemployment insurance benefits.

It is an urgent need for the country to mobilize, and I quote here, 'the most powerful and creative industrial nation that ever existed on this Earth'.

It is considerably less certain that such programs can exert significant positive impact on national unemployment levels.

I am sending to Congress the 13th annual Manpower Report of the President.

I would like to take this opportunity to express my very deep gratitude and appreciation for what the Advertising Council has done over the years.

I hereby waive the application of subsections (a) and (b) of section 402 of said Act with respect to the Socialist Republic of Romania.

We can meet adversity, that we will be successful.

This year's Manpower Report, therefore, includes an interim review of some recent research findings on the development of methods to determine the manpower impact of Government program and policy changes.

I know there are some people here from Michigan.

We are going to move forward, we are taking a fresh start, and we are going to be successful both at home and abroad.

The passage of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act in December, 1973, was a landmark development in the decentralization of manpower program design and operation responsibilities to State and local government units.

I think there is a need also for us as leaders in this country to talk about the good things.

We have a distressed economy.

He has rendered an unbelievable service on behalf of his people, his State, and his country.

I compliment all of you in this great part of our country for showing the superb judgment in seeing to it that you are represented by Eddie Hebert.

May Eddie's wonderful sense of humor stay with us, too, lightening the burdens when things seem heaviest and reminding us all that even in serious times, we must never lose our gift of laughter.

Eddie's best monument will be his achievements, his own record as a public servant.

There are few men in the United States Congress that I have known longer or respected more than the man that all of us honor here on this occasion today.

Lousiana is a better State and America is a better country because of our friend Eddie Hebert.