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Remarks of the President at the Villa Maria Nursing and Rehabilitation Center [Ford Speech or Statement]
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Digitized from Box 31 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SEPTEMBER 27, 1976
OFFICE OF THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY
(Miami, Florida)
THE WHITE HOUSE
REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT
AT THE
VILLA MARIA NURSING AND RETIREMENT CENTER
THE RECREATION ROOM
12:45 P.M. EDT
I want to thank the administration and the
diocese. I think the Villa Maria Nursing and Retirement
Home epitomizes what kinds of opportunities we want for
all of our older citizens and all of those who are
disabled and need the best care and attention.
History judges a nation on how well it takes
care of its older people, and the United States of
America has an obligation to do the maximum because as I
look around this room and have the opportunity to say hello
and to express my best, I know how much all of you and
your generation have done to make this country what it is
today.
So, those of us and younger generations than
myself have a moral obligation to make certain and to
make positive that you have wonderful facilities like
this and that you have kind people like the nurses and
the doctors and the administrators that have a superb
opportunity to do all they can to help you.
I promise you that our retirement nursing homes
will be expanded, will be made more available because
we have a serious moral commitment and obligation to
make a better America, as you mature and as you retire,
and I pledge that to all of you and to all like you.
Good luck and God bless you.
END
(AT 12:47 P.M. EDT)