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Yes, I'd be glad to.
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1,241
It's impossible for mayors or governors to cooperate with the resident, because they can't anticipate what's gonna happen next.
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This has not been done, unfortunately.
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1,244
I remember the headline in the Daily News that said, "Ford to New York: Drop Dead."
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I think it's very important that our cities know that they have a partner in the federal government.
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Uh - those uh programs were designed to help those who need it most.
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And quite often this has been in the very poor people and neighborhoods in the downtown urban centers.
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Also I favor all revenue sharing money being used for local governments, and also to remove prohibitions in the use of revenue sharing money so that it can be used to improve education, and health care.
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We have now uh - for instance only 7 percent of the total education cost being financed by the federal government.
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When uh - the Nixon-Ford Administration started, this was 10 percent.
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That's a 30 percent reduction in the portion that the federal government contributes to education in just eight years.
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We've got an extraordinarily high unemployment rate among downtown urban ghetto areas, uh - particularly among the very poor and particularly among minority groups, sometimes 50 or 60 percent.
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And the concentration of employment opportunities in those areas would help greatly not only to reestablish the tax base, but also to help reduce the extraordinary welfare cost.
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And I favor a shifting of the welfare cost away from the local governments altogether.
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Those things would help a great deal with the cities, but we still have a - a very serious problem there.
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I fought for, and the Congress finally went along with a general revenue sharing program, whereby cities and uh - states, uh - the cities two-thirds and the states one-third, get over six billion dollars a year in cash through which they can uh - provide many, many services, whatever they really want.
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In addition we uh - in the federal government make available to uh - cities about uh - three billion three hundred million dollars in what we call community development.
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In adesh- in addition, uh - uh - as a result of my pressure an the Congress, we got a major mass transit program uh - over a four-year period, eleven billion eight-hundred million dollars.
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1,269
We're expanding our homestead uh - housing program.
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1,283
Uh - what we're doing is saying that there are opportunities, business opportunities, educational opportunities, responsibilities uh - where people with talent, black or any other minority, can fully qualify.
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1,289
The uh - description just made of this administration's record is hard to uh - recognize.
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Uh - FHA, which used to be a very responsible agency, uh - that everyone looked to to help own a home, lost six million dollars last year.
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There've been over thirteen hundred indictments in HUD, over eight hundred convictions relating just to home loans.
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And now the federal government has become the world's greatest slum landlord.
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We've got a 30 percent or 40 percent unemployment rate among minority uh - young people.
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And there's been no concerted effort given to the needs of those who are both poor and black, or poor and who speak a foreign language.
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And that's where there's been a great uh generation of despair, and ill health, and the lack of education, lack of purposefulness, and the lack of hope for the future.
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1,304
It requires an aggressive searching out and reaching out to help people who especially need it.
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And that's been lacking in the last eight years.
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1,317
I don't think the government oughta do anything to encourage abortion.
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1,318
But I don't favor a constitutional amendment on the subject.
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1,321
However, I honor the right of people who seek the constitutional amendments on school busing, on uh - prayer in the schools and an abortion.
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But among those you named, I won't actively work for the passage of any of them.
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Uh - it seems to me that there should have - be an opportunity, uh - as long as it's voluntary, as long as there is no uh - compulsion whatsoever, that uh - an individual ought to have that right.
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So in those two cases I think uh - such uh - a constitutional amendment would be proper, and I really don't think in either case they're trivial matters.
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And therefore, they shouldn't be treated lightly.
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The record just doesn't prove that such legislation or action by a local city council is effective.
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What we have to do, and this is the crux of the matter, is to make it very, very uh - difficult for a person who uses a gun in the commission of a crime to stay out of jail.
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If we make the use of a gun in the commission.
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of a crime a serious criminal offense, and that person is prosecuted, then, in my opinion, we are going after the person who uses the gun for the wrong reason.
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That has not proven to be effective, and therefore, I think the better way is to go after the criminal, the individual who commits a crime in the possession of a gun and uses that gun for a part of his criminal activity.
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You should not in the process penalize the legitimate handgun owner.
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Uh - earlier, uh - Mr. Levi, his uh - attorney general, put forward a gun control proposal, which Mr. Ford later, I believe, espoused, that called for the prohibition against the uh sale aw- of the uh - so-called Saturday Night Specials.
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And uh - the only purpose that I would see in registering uh - handguns and not long guns of any kind would be to prohibit the uh - ownership of those guns by those who've used them in the commission of a crime, or who uh - have been proven to be mentally incompetent to own a gun.
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And, in addition to that put forward a proposal that was adopted and used throughout my own term of office of selection of - for all judges and district attorneys or prosecuting attorneys, on the basis of merit.
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Every time I had a vacancy on the Georgia Supreme Court - and I filled five of those vacancies out of seven total and about half the court of appeals judges, about 35 percent of the trial judges - I was given from an objective panel the five most highly qualified persons in Georgia.
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So merit selection of judges is the most important single criterion.
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The uh - right of indigent or very poor accused persons to uh - legal counsel.
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Uh - I think the Burger Court has confirmed that basic and very controversial decision of the Warren Court.
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But now I think there have been a couple of instances where the Burger Court has made technical rulings where an obviously guilty person was later found to be guilty.
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If the uh - list was, uh - in my opinion, fairly uniform, if there was no outstanding person, then I would undoubtedly choose someone who would most accurately reflect my own basic politi- political philosophy as best I could determine it.
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He hasn't had help from the administration, from the Congress, to carry this out.
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I had one opportunity to nominate uh - an individual to the Supreme Court and I selected the Circuit Court of Appeals judge from Illinois, uh - John Paul Stevens.
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So, I would say somebody in the format of uh - Justice Stevens would be the kind of an individual that I would uh - select in the future, as I did him in the past.
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The Miranda case, uh - the Burger Court uh - is gradually changing, and I'm pleased to see that there are some steps being made by the uh - Burger Court to modify the so-called Miranda decision.
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Uh - I might make a correction uh - of what uh - Governor Carter said, uh speaking of uh - uh - gun control, uh - yes, it is true, I believe that the sale of uh - Saturday Night S- Specials should be cut out, but he wants the registration of handguns.
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Uh - let me uh - talk about uh - the economic announcements that were made just this past week.
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But do you realize that over the last ten years that's a higher figure than the average growth during that ten-year period?
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But now let's talk about the pluses that came out this week.
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We had an 18 percent increase in housing starts.
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We had a substantial increase in new permits for housing.
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As a matter of fact, based on the announcement this week, there will be at an annual rate of a million, eight hundred and some thousand new houses built, which is a tremendous increase over last year and a substantial increase over the earlier part of this year.
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And inflation hits everybody: those who are working and those who are on welfare.
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The rate of inflation, as announced just the other day, is under 5 percent; and the uh - 4.4 percent that was indicated at the time of the 4 percent GNP was less than the 5.4 percent.
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Since the depths of the recession, we have added four million jobs.
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Im- most importantly, consumer confidence as surveyed by the reputable organization at the University of Michigan is at the highest since 1972.
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It means that there will be increased hires.
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Now we've had this pause, but most economists, regardless of their political philosophy, uh - indicate that this pause for a month or two was healthy, because we could not have honestly sustained a 9.2 percent rate of growth which we had in the first quarter of this year.
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With all due respect to President Ford, I think he ought to be ashamed of mentioning that statement, because we have the highest unemployment rate now than we had at any time between the Great Depression caused by Herbert Hoover and the time President Ford took office.
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We've got seven and a half million people out of jobs.
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In the last four months alone, five hundred thousand Americans have gone on the unemployment roll.
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Anybody who says that the inflation rate is in good shape now ought to talk to the housewives.
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There's no way to make a prediction that my family might be able to own a home or to put my kid through college.
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And we've got a 35 percent unemployment rate in many areas of this country among construction workers.
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That is a very serious indictment of this administration.
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It's probably the worst one of all.
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Well, that's not exactly an accurate description of what happened.
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I believe that to be accurate, I had 49 percent; President Ford, 39 percent.
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As a matter of fact, I think when Gallup ran their first poll in December of 1975 they didn't put my name on the list.
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So the polls to me are interesting, but they don't determine, you know, my hopes or - or my despair.
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I've never depended on powerful political figures to put me in office.
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But I think our hold uh - of support among those who uh - are crucial to the election has been fairly steady.
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And my success in the primary season was, I think, notable for a newcomer, from someone who's from outside Washington, who - who never has been a part of the Washington establishment.
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I think uh - the uh - increase and the uh - prospects as far as I'm concerned and the I - less favorable prospects for Governor Carter, reflect that Governor Carter uh - is inconsistent in many of the positions that he takes.
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Uh - just a moment ago, for example, uh - he uh - was indicating that uh - uh - in the 1950s, for example, uh - unemployment was very low.
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We - I mean in Korea - we had uh - three million five hundred thousand young men uh - in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines.
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At the present time we're at peace.
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We are not at war.
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We have reduced the military manpower by a million four hundred thousand.
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So you cannot compare unemployment, as you sought to, uh - with the present time with the 1950s, because the then administration had people in the military - they were at war, they were fighting overseas, and this administration has reduced the size of the military by a million four hundred thousand.
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For twenty-five years I served in the Congress under five presidents.
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I didn't always agree with their decisions, whether they were Democratic or Republican presidents.
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We had inflation of over 12 percent, we were on the brink of the worst recession in the last forty years, we were still deeply involved in the problems of Vietnam.
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The American people had lost faith and trust and confidence in the presidency itself.
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I think most people know that I did not seek the presidency.
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The American people are healed, are working together.
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I've been proud to be president of the United States during these very troubled times.
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Thank you, and good night.
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Thank you Barbara (barely audible).
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I don't believe the present administration has done that.
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