WASHINGTON — In 1975, after years of deep political division, social unrest, and economic struggles, President Gerald Ford traveled to the Boston area to rally Americans around an approaching milestone: the nation’s 200th birthday.
“It is a time to place the hand of healing on the heart of America — not division and not blame,” Ford declared in a speech at the foot of the Old North Bridge in Concord, kicking off the more than year-long bicentennial celebration by commemorating the […]
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