Gerald Ford actually said...

It could result at best in comparatively limited benefits for domestic producers while risking retaliation from abroad against the larger volume of other products exported by our farmers.

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Memorandum of Disapproval of a Bill To Restrict Imports of Filbert Products

01/03/1975

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