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Gerald Ford: “This legislation might begin a precedent I believe it best not to establish.”

On the recordJanuary 3, 1975
This legislation might begin a precedent I believe it best not to establish.
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Gerald Ford
Republican · Michigan

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Memorandum of Disapproval of a Bill To Name a Federal Building in Grand Rapids, Michigan, for the President.

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