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Gerald Ford: “This ceremony should make us realize how precious freedom is and how dearly Americans have paid for it from the first…”

On the recordApril 9, 1976
This ceremony should make us realize how precious freedom is and how dearly Americans have paid for it from the first battles for independence down to the very present.
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Gerald Ford
Republican · Michigan

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Remarks at a Bicentennial Commemoration Ceremony in El Paso

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