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Happy Anniversary, AmericaWASHINGTON (UPI) ~ For the third day in a row. President Ford Saturday celebrated the nation’s 200th birthday in a round of activities in the Washington area.Ford spent the morning at the While House, then headed for the Burning Tree Country Club for a round of golf with Bob Hope in a match against Washington Redskin quarterback Billy Kilmer and linebacker Rusty Tillman.In the evening. Ihe President and Mrs. Ford attended a performance of the Honor America Program” featuringthe Mormon Tabernacle, Bob Hope, Art Linkletter and evangelist Billy Graham at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing ArtsFord opened the performance after attending a reception, saying, “We are a happy people because we are a free people and while we have our faults and our failures, tonight is not the time to parade them, Kather lei's look to our third century as the century in which freedom finds fulfill mem in even greater creativity and individuality.W'‘'Tonight we salute Ihepursuit of happiness as we listen to our exciting past in song and story,” he said.So, break out the flags, strike up the band, light up lhe sky and Jet the whole wide world know that the United States of America is about to have another happy birthday, still going strong at 200, and in the words of the great A5 Jnlson You ain’t seen nothin' yet.” Ford said the United States“is probably the only country on earth that puts 'the pursuit of happiness’ right after life and liberty among the Gori-given rights of every human being.”In remarks prepared fordelivery at Valiev Forge Sunday, Ford said:“As we continue our American adventure, the patriots of Valley Forge and the pioneers of the American frontier, indeed all our heroes and heroines of war and peace, send us this single urgent message: Though prosperity is a good thing, though compassionate charity is a good thing, though institutional reform is a good thing, a nation survives only so long as the spirit of sacrifice and self-discipline is strong within its people.“independence has in bedefended as well as declared; freedom is always worth fighting for; and liberty ultimately belongs only to those willing losuffer for it.If we remember this, we can bring health where there is now disease, peee where there is strife, progress where there iswant.”In remarks prepared for delivery Sunday at Independence II All in Ph iari e Ip hia. Ford said, “Liberty is a living flame tn be fed, noi dead ashes to bo revered, even in a Bicentennial year.”lip said Americans shouldasked the “hard questions”, whether their institutions .work as they shqulri; are the foundations laid in 1776 and 1769“strong enough and sound enough to resist the tremors of our times? Are our God-given rights secure, our hard-won liberties protected?”Ford said the “Ameiean adventure is a continuing process ... as we heghi our third century there is stitl so much to be done.” adding:• — “We must increase the independence of the individual and the opportunity of all Americans lo attain their full potential.— We must ensure each citizen's right lo privacy.— “We must create a more beautiful America, making human works conform to the harmony of nature.— “We must develop a safer society, so ordered that happiness may be pursued without fear of. crime or man-made hazards.— “We must build a more stable international order, politically, economically and legally.“We must match the great breakthroughs of the past century in improving health and conquering disease.— “We must continue to unlock the secrets of the universe beyond our planet as well as within ourselves.— “We must work to enrich the quality of American life at work, at play and in our homes,“It is right that American are always improving — U is Hot only right, it is necessary,” he said. ’‘From need comes action, as it did here in Independence HaU.““The world is ever conscious of what Americans a re doing, for hetler or fnr worse because the United States remains today ihe most successful realization of**********************The Weal herPartly r/om/v ttuhiym Uiuhs in » ■ ,70s lo It nr Hits, CUmttv of xhtnvvr activity throughout.IlttfeltlItfgliA Seel ionsCITY, AUK A, LATEST SPORTS GENERAL, SOCIAL EVENTS COMICS, FAMILY WEEKLY SHOPPING SUP ELEMENTSVol. CVH.—No. 185 Associated Press Service —- UPI — AP Photofax Cumberland, Maryland, Sunday, July 4, 1076J’jiMi-brt! *■» rr* Sumhtk la ific Tiuw i\ AHim-ikm'um I 'n„ Hotlintorr St.w ry • ^ -lt; o nihi^'lninl. Mil. » 1502. NriomJ t'lo-.', )ii« Ot ('iiiolu'Pljin iL MtL * ItCff \^6fttS
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Sun, Jul 04, 1976
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