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Gerald Ford: “We will not permit the burden of necessary economic restraint to fall on those members of society least able to bear the…”

On the recordSeptember 10, 1974
We will not permit the burden of necessary economic restraint to fall on those members of society least able to bear the cost.
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Gerald Ford
Republican · Michigan

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Remarks to the Conference on Inflation

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