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The Brilliance of the English Language
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Gerald R. Ford's Material from the Writing of "A Time to Heal"
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President Gerald R. Ford's handwritten reflections, 1977 or 1978
Scanned from the collection Gerald R. Ford: Materials from the writing of A Time
To Heal at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
While writing his autobiography, A Time to Heal (New York: Harper & Row, 1979), President
Gerald R. Ford composed a series of personal reflections on twenty-seven topics. What makes
these documents so unusual is not only their introspection but also their form. President Ford
recorded these observations by hand, writing in blue ball point on his favored yellow writing
tablets. He did not expend time and energy to polish and edit his writing, apparently planning to
do so when incorporating them into the book. Therefore occasional spelling or grammatical
errors or incomplete thoughts appear.
For each reflection the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library has scanned President Ford's
handwritten document and added a Library-produced transcription below to aid in reading the
reflection.
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Brillince file English language
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from life
Brilliance of the English Language
It is easy to say that English is beautiful because one speaks & reads it by heritage especially if
no other language is known. That is no answer.
English is brilliant because it gives 215 million Americans and millions more throughout the
world to communicate on a day to day basis. English is also brilliant because it permits orators
like Daniel Webster or Everett Dirksen to dramatize great issues. English also gives the great
authors of history the tools to write in their own way about people, problems, science, humor or
what have you.
English is flexible - useable by all persons for all purposes - and is a fundamental key to
building better relationships between people, nations & a finer life.