Gerald Ford

You have a fine Governor. Bill Milliken has done an outstanding job.

Our candidates for the Congress are worthy of your full support.

I am gratified to sign the legislation authorizing me to create such a council.

One of the most important of our Republican concepts is to reverse the concentration of power in Washington.

We face an uphill road, and we will make it through only if we all pull together.

This new Council on Wage and Price Stability will provide us with one means of identifying and exposing some of the causes of inflation.

It is time for all of us to get down to hard work.

I think that is a great trend in exactly the right direction.

It is tough, demanding work, but it is accomplishing our great goal.

This is an objective I can support as long as the means selected do not jeopardize our national security interests.

I must take care to avoid seriously impairing the Government we all seek to make more open.

I have doubts about the appropriateness of diverting the direction of litigation from the disclosure of information to career-affecting disciplinary hearings about employee conduct.

I share your concerns for improving the Freedom of Information Act.

Neither the best interests of Government nor the public would be served by subjecting an employee to this kind of personal liability for the performance of his official duties.

I am concerned with any provision which would reduce our ability to effectively deal with crime.

I appreciate the time you have given me to study the amendments to the Freedom of Information Act.

Administrative burdens are not by themselves sufficient obstacles to prevent progress in Government.

I believe now is the time to preclude the Freedom of Information Act from disclosing information harmful to the privacy of individuals.

I intend to go more than halfway to accommodate Congressional concerns.

I simply cannot accept a provision that would risk exposure of our military or intelligence secrets and diplomatic relations.

The housing industry needs a shot in the arm, and this bill, I think, can be extremely helpful in this area.

The time for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment has come just as surely as did the time for the 19th Amendment.

I thank them on behalf of all of you and many, many millions of others throughout our country.

This new Treaty represents a substantial modernization with respect to the procedural aspects of extradition.

That document right there will, I think, write new pages of history in community development and housing production.