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On the recordFebruary 11, 1976
It is my confident hope and belief that this system will be found, after sufficient trials, to be better adapted everywhere than any other to the great interest of human society; namely, the preservation of peace, order and national prosperity.
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Gerald Ford
Republican · Michigan

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Remarks at a Ceremony Commemorating the Birth of Abraham Lincoln

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