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Gerald Ford: Not a single young American is fighting or dying on any foreign soil tonight, and we will keep it that way.

On the recordOctober 23, 1976
Not a single young American is fighting or dying on any foreign soil tonight, and we will keep it that way.
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Gerald Ford
Republican · Michigan

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Remarks in La Mesa, California

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