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Gerald Ford: “It is, of course, a great blessing that the last American soldier is home from the battlefields of Vietnam.”

On the recordDecember 11, 1974
It is, of course, a great blessing that the last American soldier is home from the battlefields of Vietnam.
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Gerald Ford
Republican · Michigan

Editor's note · Context

Remarks on Awarding the Congressional Medal of Honor to WO Louis R. Rocco and S. Sgt. Jon R. Cavaiani, United States Army.

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