Text of President Ford's Remarks on Inflation
Following is the text of President FordÛªs remarks at the opening of the White House conference on inflation:</br></br>Good morning. It is a pleasure to be here with the distinguished members of the Congress, both Democrat and Republican, and the very eminent goup of economists and guests.</br></br>I look forward to a very beneficial and fruitful meeting this morning. This meeting marks the start of our national conference on inflation. I have called this series of working conferences in response to a bipartisan recommendation by the United States Senate and with the cooperation of concerned citizens representing all elements of our American society.</br></br>Our purpose is to find ways by which we, the American people, can come to grips with our economic difficulties and surmount them.</br></br>This has been called a summit conference. Maybe that title is a bit misleading. Recent summit conferences have been held between leaders of international adversaries with the hope of reducing their differences. Around this table there are no adversaries. We come together as allies to draw upon, or to draw up, I should say, a battle plan