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Gerald Ford: “I had no longer been President than 30 days or more when we were capitulated into the worst economic recession that this…”

On the recordApril 9, 1976
I had no longer been President than 30 days or more when we were capitulated into the worst economic recession that this country has had in 40 years.
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Gerald Ford
Republican · Michigan

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Remarks at a President Ford Committee Reception in El Paso

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