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Gerald Ford: “It is my best judgment, based on experts within the Administration, both economic and military, that if we had made…”

On the recordApril 15, 1975
It is my best judgment, based on experts within the Administration, both economic and military, that if we had made available for the next 3 years reasonable sums of military aid and economic assistance, that South Vietnam would have been viable.
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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 American Society of Newspaper Editors

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