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" A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him. "
Aim
Him
Victory
" A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have. "
Big
Government
Enough
" All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future. "
Children
Speak
Future
" An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. "
American
Tragedy
Which
" Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together. "
People
Win
Together
" For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas. "
Mind
Ideas
Men
" History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion. "
Experience
History
Progress
" I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers. "
Me
You
President
" I am a Ford, not a Lincoln. "
I Am
Lincoln
Am
" I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned. "
Seek
Honest
World
" I feel it is my first duty to make an unprecedented compact with my countrymen. Not an inaugural address, not a fireside chat, not a campaign speech - just a little straight talk among friends. "
Friends
Speech
Talk
" If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave. "
Grave
He
Alive
" I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am. "
Smarter
People
I Am
" I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today. "
Today
Sports
Name
" I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember. "
Lot
I Can
Political
" I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators. "
Sports
Know
I Am
" I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio. "
Watch
Always
Sports
" In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end. "
Honesty Is
Confidence
Best
" It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected. "
Proud
Success
Quality
" I watch a lot of baseball on the radio. "
Lot
Watch
Baseball
" I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone. "
Alone
Understanding
Would
" May our former president, who brought peace to millions, find it for himself. "
Who
May
Find
" My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage. "
Commitment
Future
Heritage
" My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. "
Nightmare
Our
Long
" Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men. "
Constitution
Government
Men
" Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule. "
People
Government
Great
" Teddy Roosevelt... once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter. "
Carry
Big
Fly
" Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time. "
Truth
Dinner
Time
" The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself. "
Back
Right
Praise
" The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election. "
Party
America
Election
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