Gerald Ford

The Renegotiation Board has a most important and vital role in government.

I thank you not only personally but on behalf of our fellow countrymen for your distinguished service.

I find that the delegation made by section 1 of this order is in the interest of the purposes expressed in the act.

You will be greatly missed at the White House.

The delegation made by this order shall become effective upon the expiration of sixty days while the Congress is in session.

This marks a long-term and vital major Federal commitment to mass transportation.

This assurance of steady and predictable support for public transit for the first time will enable localities to plan intelligently for their long-term needs.

The cost of these benefits to the Government in terms of revenue loss would be about $130 million.

Failure to do so will mean that the Congress will in the aggregate...add over one and a half billion dollars to the Federal deficit in 1975.

This bill would suspend until June 30, 1977, the present duties on zinc ores and concentrates and zinc-bearing materials.

It is with a great deal of personal pleasure that I sign the National Mass Transportation Assistance Act of 1974.

I am returning today without my approval H.R. 12628, a bill which would provide what I consider an excessive increase and liberalization of veterans' education and training benefits.

I believe the present entitlement of four academic years is sufficient time to permit a veteran to obtain his baccalaureate degree.

If the Congress were to reenact this bill without the undesirable tax riders, I would be glad to approve it.

I continue to support a responsible increase in education benefits for veterans.

This special tax consideration resulting in a windfall to a limited group of taxpayers would be a very undesirable precedent.

I am returning without my approval H.R. 6191, 'To amend the Tariff Schedules of the United States to provide that certain forms of zinc be admitted free of duty, and for other purposes.'

Unfortunately, the Congress attached to this desirable provision unacceptable tax riders which would grant windfall benefits to individuals already compensated for property losses resulting from certain disasters in 1972.

This legislation is significant in our fight against excessive use of petroleum.

I am returning this bill with reluctance.

The decision not to sign this bill has not been an easy one.

This legislation represents a compromise in the best sense of the term.

America is a strong country; Americans are very strong people.

The problems of food, population, and energy are not confined to any one country or to countries at an early stage of economic development.

The results of the talks provided a convincing demonstration of the practical value of Soviet-American summit meetings.