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Gerald Ford: “I certainly would not lift my hand to try and get any State to do away with a Presidential primary election law.”

On the recordApril 15, 1975
I certainly would not lift my hand to try and get any State to do away with a Presidential primary election law.
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Gerald Ford
Republican · Michigan

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Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session at the Annual Convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors

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