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Gerald Ford: “It blazed across the country on the Fourth of July, and every American felt it.”

On the recordJuly 11, 1976
It blazed across the country on the Fourth of July, and every American felt it.
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Gerald Ford
Republican · Michigan

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Remarks at the Annual Convention of the National Exchange Club

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