Gerald Ford actually said...

We can still avoid a disaster that could wreck not only our economy but the economic structure of the industrialized democracies throughout the world.

Context

Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session at a Meeting of the New York Society of Security Analysts in New York City.

02/12/1975

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