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Gerald Ford: “I don’t think it is a mere coincidence that these 3 very successful years have been years when the Government left you…”

On the recordApril 9, 1976
I don’t think it is a mere coincidence that these 3 very successful years have been years when the Government left you alone and let you produce without a lot of bureaucratic interference from the Nation’s Capital.
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Gerald Ford
Republican · Michigan

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Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session at the Annual Convention of the Texas Grain and Feed Association in El Paso.

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