Gerald Ford

We are encouraged by this development and hope it will be followed by other positive steps to achieve peace and reconciliation in Laos.

I remain concerned about the many Americans still unaccounted for in Southeast Asia.

A majority must take into account the proper interest of a minority if the decisions of the majority are to be accepted.

We are committed to a pursuit of a more peaceful, stable, and cooperative world.

I welcomed the news that Mr. Emmet Kay has been released as part of the prisoner exchange in Laos.

We are prepared to carry out such searches by unarmed American teams.

America will continue to do more than its share.

Today, with pleasure and humility, I take my turn in welcoming you, the distinguished representatives of 138 nations.

Peace cannot be imposed from without, but we will do whatever is within our capacity to help achieve it.

The United States recognizes the special responsibility we bear as the world's largest producer of food.

The families of our men have waited too long already.

Failure to cooperate on oil and food and inflation could spell disaster for every nation represented in this room.

I urge the Nation's Governors, Mayors, and all other public officials, as well as leaders in every area of American life, to join with the handicapped themselves in active participation in this observance.

The single greatest difficulty facing the handicapped person is not his or her own disability but rather the attitudes of society toward that disability.

Let us resolve in 1974 to make use of the talents and abilities and energies of the handicapped.

The Board shall report to the President its findings and recommendations as to whether Executive clemency should be granted or denied in any case.

Over a year after the last American combatant had left Vietnam, the status of thousands of our countrymen...remains unresolved.

I think they should be closely held, and I can assure you that they will be most judiciously handled as far as I am concerned.

I must say that the decision has created more antagonism than I anticipated.

We must maintain our own strength and help our allies who are trying to retain the gains that were made in Vietnam and elsewhere in the Pacific.

I personally think that is something that should be kept very closely held.

We have peace at the present time.

What we want to elect to Congress--Senators and Members of the House--is an inflation-proof Congress, and we will get it with Republican candidates.

Reconciliation among our people does not require that these acts be condoned.

I had no secret reason.