Gerald Ford

It is well spent if we deter aggression, maintain the peace, and make certain and positive that our national security is secure.

I also urge those who work with and serve agricultural producers to make a special commitment during our two-hundredth birthday year to the task of helping to make rural America a truly safe place in which to live and work.

I urge all who live and work on the Nation’s farms and ranches to make safety an integral part of all daily activities on the job and at play.

I am delighted to announce this morning the appointment of Jeanne Holm as the President's Assistant for Women in the White House.

I will back you 100 percent.

I call upon all Americans to remember that we are blessed with a strong and viable agriculture, and that we must also keep it safe for ourselves and future generations.

We're going to have a first class team, and I am delighted to have you on board.

I have recommended $112.7 billion--a $1.7 billion increase for strategic forces and $4.5 billion increase in general purpose forces.

I assure you I have a personal commitment and an emotional commitment to it.

Yes. I think the rest of them are, as I understand it, cutting each other up pretty badly, dividing the Democratic Party with their comments and criticisms of one another.

It's wonderful to be down here in this just great part of Illinois.

America is strong; it's alert; it's ready, and we're going to keep it that way.

We have to make sure that we can get our energy to where it is needed.

I think we have got a very first-class organization.

I always felt that 'they did more than their share, and the net result was we won.'

We are bringing under control the frightening inflation of 12 1/2 to 13 percent about 17 or 18 months ago.

Coal is our Nation's most abundant energy resource.

We are trying to come out--and we are doing it very successfully--out of the recession that we had that bottomed out last March.

I think we're going to win Florida and, from what you all tell me, we're going to win Illinois.

Well, it is a very important area, that is why I am here.

The economic news is good, and it's going to get better.

I was talking to Senator Percy about that problem on the way down here.

We, of course, are watching it very closely.

We will not tolerate any violation of domestic laws in the United States or the laws of any country in which an American corporation operates.

Your factories in Illinois are beginning to hum, and they're going to be producing more and more and more in the months ahead.