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Gerald Ford: “I am vigorously opposed to any additional Federal tax on gasoline, and I will fight it as hard as I possibly can.”

On the recordOctober 15, 1974
I am vigorously opposed to any additional Federal tax on gasoline, and I will fight it as hard as I possibly can.
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Gerald Ford
Republican · Michigan

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Remarks in Sioux Falls, South Dakota

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