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Gerald Ford: “The greater emphasis today on the importance, the essentiality of affirmative action at the State level is going to grow…”

On the recordJanuary 16, 1975
The greater emphasis today on the importance, the essentiality of affirmative action at the State level is going to grow and grow and grow.
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Gerald Ford
Republican · Michigan

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Remarks at the Awards Ceremony of the Citizens Conference on State Legislatures

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