I have signed H.R. 15580, the 1975 appropriations act for the Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare and related agencies.
Gerald Ford
The Public Record
Gerald Rudolph Ford was the 38th President of the United States, serving from August 9, 1974, to January 20, 1977. A member of the Republican Party, Ford was born in Michigan and previously served as the U.S. House of Representatives member from 1949 to 1973. He also held the position of House Minority Leader from 1965 until he became President. Ford is particularly known for his efforts to heal the nation following the Watergate scandal and for his controversial decision to pardon former President Richard Nixon.
We recognize the necessity of international cooperation to improve the international food situation.
We reaffirmed our international pledges to avoid trade and payments restrictions which adversely affect other countries.
They are determined not to permit a serious deterioration in their economies to occur.
We are agreed that determination and cooperation are necessary in dealing with energy-related problems.
We reaffirmed the relationship of friendship and trust and confidence between the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany.
It is a great privilege and a pleasure for me and our people to have you and your Foreign Secretary visiting us in Washington on this occasion.
It has been marked by a very close friendship and a very close cooperation, and we are particularly proud of that association.
I call upon all Americans to pray that day, each after his or her own manner and convictions, for Deity's blessing on our land and for peace on earth, goodwill among all men.
I appreciate the important relationship between liberal education and professions.
They have made tremendous contributions in fields as widespread as education and science, culture and the arts.
It is my privilege, Mr. Chancellor, in the spirit of our friendship and cooperation and mutual interest, to offer a toast to you and all that you embody and that of your great country.
I am always an optimist, and I happen to believe that you will succeed.
I look forward to those discussions in full confidence that these talks will contribute significantly to our efforts in creating more stable political and economic conditions throughout the world.
Twenty-five years of your history has been a period of 25 years of close personal relationship to the United States.
We also appreciate, Mr. Chancellor, your cooperation in helping to assure that no nation bear an unfair burden of the cost of our common defense.
We feel that this gathering is a reaffirmation of the longstanding friendship of your people as well as ours.
I believe we can do it, and speaking for the American people, I appreciate the support your Government has shown for strengthened economic cooperation in the international field.
I am delighted to welcome you here in Washington, our Nation's Capital, on behalf of the American people.
Only by working together can we overcome the current difficulties facing our economies and international economy.
The Nation as a whole is enriched by the availability of the wilderness experience to those who are able and willing to seek it.
For our ancestors, the ability to live in rugged, undeveloped countryside was often a matter of survival.





