Gerald Ford actually said...

I think less than 100 Federal employees handle the whole distribution of all these funds to the 50 States and the almost 5,000 different units of government at the local level.

Context

Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Members of the Northern Illinois Newspaper Association in Chicago.

03/11/1976

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