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Gerald Ford: “America is arousing itself, as it always does in time of great challenge.”

On the recordOctober 14, 1974
America is arousing itself, as it always does in time of great challenge.
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Gerald Ford
Republican · Michigan

Editor's note · Context

Remarks to the Annual Convention of the Future Farmers of America, Kansas City, Missouri.

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