We will not permit the burden of necessary economic restraint to fall on those members of society least able to bear the cost.
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
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Remarks to the Conference on Inflation
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