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Gerald Ford: “We made this progress because we gave the free enterprise system an opportunity to work, and that is where the jobs are.”

On the recordApril 22, 1976
We made this progress because we gave the free enterprise system an opportunity to work, and that is where the jobs are.
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Gerald Ford
Republican · Michigan

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Remarks at a President Ford Committee Reception in Evansville, Indiana

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