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On the recordAugust 3, 1976
I asked the Congress to appropriate $135 million for the production of sufficient swine flu vaccine.
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Gerald Ford
Republican · Michigan

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Letter to the Speaker of the House and the Senate Majority Leader on the National Swine Flu Immunization Program

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