President Ford's son, Steve Ford, read his father's prepared remarks at the dedication. "& It is precisely because I have seen so much of our past, that I entertain no doubts about our future. Seventy-five years ago I learned to see possibilities where others saw only problems; to celebrate America—not uncritically—but as a work in progress, imperfect as each of us is imperfect, yet striving always to do better, become more just, and fulfill at last the promises we made to one another as an infant republic held together by a dream of democratic self government."
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