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Richard Nixon... was just offered $2 million by Schick to do a television commercial - for Gillette.
Gerald R. Ford
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Gerald R. Ford
Age: 93 †
Born: 1913
Born: July 14
Died: 2006
Died: December 26
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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.
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I hope never to see the day that I cannot admit having made a mistake.
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Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.
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My golf must be improving, I'm not hitting as many spectators.
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In a political sense, there is one problem that currently underlies all of the others. That problem is making Government sufficiently responsive to the people. If we don't make government responsive to the people, we don't make it believable. And we must make government believable if we are to have a functioning democracy.
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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.
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Ronald Regan doesn't dye his hair - he's just prematurely orange.
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I strongly support the feeding of children.
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Ronald Reagan was an excellent leader of our nation during challenging times at home and abroad.
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Too often critics seem more intent on seeking new ways to alter Congress than to truly learn how it functions. They might well profit from the advice of Thomas Huxley, who said a century ago: Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notionor you shall learn nothing.
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The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency.
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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.
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I have always felt that the real purpose of government is to enhance the lives of people and that a leader can best do that by restraining government in most cases instead of enlarging it at every opportunity.
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The spirit of seeking understanding through personal contact with people of other nations and other cultures deserves the respect and support of all.
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An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history conviction results from whatever offense or offenses two-thirds of the other body considers to be sufficiently serious to require removal of the accused from office.
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I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.
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The old question still remains: Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?
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I know well the coequal role of the Congress in our constitutional process. I love the House of Representatives. I revere the traditions of the Senate despite my too-short internship in that great body. As President, within the limits of basic principles, my motto toward the Congress is communication, conciliation, compromise, and cooperation.
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A great nation cannot abandon its responsibilities. Responsibilities abandoned today return as more acute crises tomorrow.
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In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process.
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