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Gerald Ford
@geraldford· Republican · MI· Apr 16, 1975

I do not believe that we need yet another Federal bureaucracy in Washington, with its attendant costs of $60 million for the first three years and hundreds of additional Federal employees.

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Gerald Ford
@geraldford· Republican · MI· Apr 16, 1975

I urge the Congress to enact a number of specific legislative proposals in this regard, including the bill I submitted in January to establish a Regulatory Review Commission.

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Gerald Ford
@geraldford· Republican · MI· Apr 15, 1975

The United States must play a very major role in world affairs in the years ahead.

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Gerald Ford
@geraldford· Republican · MI· Apr 15, 1975

I have ordered the evacuation of all nonessential U.S. personnel in South Vietnam.

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Gerald Ford
@geraldford· Republican · MI· Apr 15, 1975

I think we have an obligation to continue to have a presence in the Pacific, in Latin America, in Africa.

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Gerald Ford
@geraldford· Republican · MI· Apr 15, 1975

I certainly would not lift my hand to try and get any State to do away with a Presidential primary election law.

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Gerald Ford
@geraldford· Republican · MI· Apr 15, 1975

It is my best judgment, based on experts within the Administration, both economic and military, that if we had made available for the next 3 years reasonable sums of military aid and economic assistance, that South Vietnam would have been…

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Gerald Ford
@geraldford· Republican · MI· Apr 15, 1975

I believe to be successful in this effort, this endeavor, the Congress and the President must work together.

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Gerald Ford
@geraldford· Republican · MI· Apr 15, 1975

I can assure you that what I have said on more than one occasion, I believe and I will try to implement, that I will work with the Congress.

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Gerald Ford
@geraldford· Republican · MI· Apr 15, 1975

I believe that the United States, the Federal Government, has to proceed according to law in the development of our outer continental oil resources on all of our shores, not just in California.

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Gerald Ford
@geraldford· Republican · MI· Apr 15, 1975

I hereby create a board of three members, to be appointed by me, to investigate this dispute.

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Gerald Ford
@geraldford· Republican · MI· Apr 15, 1975

Your efforts today will breathe new life into the textbooks of tomorrow.

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Gerald Ford
@geraldford· Republican · MI· Apr 15, 1975

I believe that continued United States participation in the Coffee Agreement will serve both our foreign policy and our consumer interests.

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Gerald Ford
@geraldford· Republican · MI· Apr 14, 1975

I believe this trend to a larger number of small contributors will be a great blessing.

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Gerald Ford
@geraldford· Republican · MI· Apr 14, 1975

The one thing that I learned in the hard contest once every 2 years is that prospects for victory are seldom so bleak or so good as they seem.

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Gerald Ford
@geraldford· Republican · MI· Apr 14, 1975

I urge that our Republican Party remain faithful to the principles of Abraham Lincoln.

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