Gerald Ford -- Address upon taking the oath of the U.S. Presidency Delivered Aug. 9, 1974, in the East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C. "Our Constitution works. Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule. But there is a higher Power, by whatever name we honor Him, who ordains not only righteousness but love, not only justice but mercy. As we bind up the internal wounds of Watergate, more painful and more poisonous than those of foreign wars, let us restore the golden rule to our political process, and let brotherly love purge our hearts of suspicion and of hate."
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