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Gerald Ford: “A majority must take into account the proper interest of a minority if the decisions of the majority are to be accepted.”

On the recordSeptember 17, 1974
A majority must take into account the proper interest of a minority if the decisions of the majority are to be accepted.
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Gerald Ford
Republican · Michigan

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Address to the 29th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations

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