President Ford reminded the American people of their Judaeo-Christian heritage last night when he observed in his annual State of the Union address that the United States bicentennial this year is near the 2000 year mark of Christian history and 6000 years of Jewish history. Touching only briefly on foreign affairs in his address to Congress, Ford said about the Middle East: “The key elements for peace among the nations of the Middle East now exist.”
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