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Gerald Ford: “I think it's tragic that international politics and foreign policy get involved in international sport competition.”

On the recordJuly 8, 1976
I think it's tragic that international politics and foreign policy get involved in international sport competition.
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Gerald Ford
Republican · Michigan

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