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Gerald Ford: “I am strongly opposed to those increases because they would intensify our number one problem--inflation.”

On the recordAugust 28, 1974
I am strongly opposed to those increases because they would intensify our number one problem--inflation.
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Gerald Ford
Republican · Michigan

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Statement on Signing the Public Works for Water and Power Development and Atomic Energy Commission Appropriation Act, 1975.

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