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Gerald Ford: “We don't need a government to do everything for us or tell us everything we can or cannot do.”

On the recordOctober 23, 1976
We don't need a government to do everything for us or tell us everything we can or cannot do.
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Gerald Ford
Republican · Michigan

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Remarks in La Mesa, California

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