“Americans are beautiful -- individually, in communities, and freely joined together by dedication to the United States of America.”

—  Gerald Ford

Remarks at Naturalization Ceremonies at Monticello, Virginia https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/speeches/760649.htm (5 July 1976)
1970s

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