These are the three annual messages Gerald Ford delivered to Congress, in January 1975, 1976 and 1977. The first, opening with his memory of being sworn in as a freshman congressman, bluntly told the nation that the state of the Union was not good; together they address recession and inflation, the energy crisis, Social Security, taxes and the aftermath of Watergate and Vietnam.
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