Gerald Ford

With profound appreciation for your presence with us today and tonight, I offer a toast to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and to you and Mrs. Wilson.

I look forward with pleasure to the discussions that we will have on the major security, political, and economic issues before our two countries.

Prompt action on all these measures is essential.

I hereby proclaim the week of February 2, 1975, as International Clergy Week in the United States.

My own prayer is for God's continued blessing and God's continued guidance for our country.

I think we have to do something on the expenditure side.

I think the acts I have taken on the first of February I must stay with.

We have got a plan; it is going to be up there in 600 or 700 pages; it is comprehensive.

I think it would be premature for me to say I would sign or would veto that bill.

Despite this proud national heritage, skin color, language barriers, poverty, or other factors beyond their control have denied many of our fellow citizens the chance to share fully in the American dream.

All Americans want to end the U.S. role in Vietnam.

I believe that this additional aid will help to deter the North Vietnamese from further escalating their military pressure and provide them additional incentive to resume the political discussions envisaged under the Paris Agreement.

I am directing that certain additional responsibilities be carried out by the Secretary of Transportation.

The relocation assistance program of the agencies has been instrumental in assisting those displaced to improve the quality of their housing and standard of living.

Theft of cargo has emerged during this decade as a serious threat to the reliability, efficiency, and integrity of the Nation's commerce.

Action be taken immediately by the Congress.

I promised at the very beginning of my Administration to be President of all the people, and I am keeping that pledge.

Under my plan, of course, the States will get a refund for any added energy costs, if the Congress acts.

Under the proclamation which I signed, the New England States are given a better break than the across-the-board imposition of the $1-per-barrel tax.

This proclamation that I am about to sign is the first step down the long and difficult road toward regaining our energy freedom.

As President, I look forward to working with John during the 94th Congress.

We need a program that will make us invulnerable to the possibility of foreign oil embargoes or any other action.

This law must not be allowed to expire in August of 1975.

This increased interest reinforces my great, great faith in democracy.

Let us get on with the job of solving this serious energy problem.