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Gerald Ford: “You have been so successful in the latter, it's probably better that you didn't win it before.”

On the recordJuly 19, 1976
You have been so successful in the latter, it's probably better that you didn't win it before.
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Gerald Ford
Republican · Michigan

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Remarks at the Swearing In of Shirley Temple Black as Chief of Protocol for the State Department

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