Gerald Ford

I wanted to come out here because it was one way that I could express my appreciation for the warm and kind things that were done by so many of the Alexandria Police Department.

I hope all you young people, particularly, will get to know our astronauts and the Soviet cosmonauts.

America has a sense of unity today.

Love and liberty are two pretty good words with which to start a nation.

The tyranny of double-digit inflation is our common enemy in 1974.

Let us show the world that the character and quality of the American people has not changed in 200 years.

It was not a revolution to tear down what the colonists had, but to preserve the freedoms.

I have decided that the first priority for us as a nation, domestically, is an all-out war against inflation.

I think you gentlemen and ladies have set a very high example for those meetings that shall follow.

This isn't a problem that only a President can solve.

This was the first group, and I shared the apprehension that some have expressed.

I thank you not only for what you have contributed but the performance that I think has been superb.

It is not a problem that only the Congress can solve.

Mrs. Ford joins me in extending to his wonderful wife and family our deepest condolences.

I call upon all the people of the United States, especially the education community and those organizations concerned with the protection of human rights, to observe that week with appropriate ceremonies and activities.

I am pleased and honored to have the opportunity to do it with a man as outstanding as Alan Greenspan.

We believe, in this Administration, as others have, that this important growing part of our American population should be recognized for what they can do for all of us and for what they have done for America over the 200 years, nearly, of…

Alan Greenspan has that reputation.

We will miss him very much.

I think it illustrates the fact that Spanish-speaking Americans were in the very vanguard of the settlement of the new world.

Improvements in the Nation's highways are also making a major contribution to progress in traffic safety.

He was also a colorful, courageous leader who won the admiration and respect of enemies as well as allies and subordinates.

He has left us an example of service and a memory of heroism that future generations of Americans, in and out of uniform, will long cherish.

The saving in lives during the past year provides an added incentive for the Government and the Nation to persist in the endeavor to make our vehicles, our highways, and our drivers safer.

Deaths rose from 34,700 in 1950 to top 53,000 in 1966.