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Statement on the Death of Franklin Rockefeller Little.

April 22, 1975

MRS. FORD and I join with the people of New York State and with all Americans who cherish a free and vigorous press in mourning the passing of Franklin Rockefeller Little.

As the owner, editor, and publisher of a number of newspapers in New York, Franklin Little distinguished himself as a man who was devoted to the truth and to informing his many readers of the truth and the meaning of events-great and small. His expert and incisive commentary on the major issues of his time was his trademark. He left his imprint as well on a host of endeavors for the public good.

For more than half a century, newspapering was his work, and it is now his proud legacy to those who will follow him. An outstanding public servant, a man who never lost the reporter's instinct for news, Franklin Little has left a great void in his own profession and in the State and Nation he served with such distinction.

Note: Mr. Little was chairman of the New York Publishing Company.

Gerald R. Ford, Statement on the Death of Franklin Rockefeller Little. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/256194

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