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PoliticAverse

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1. Some say it cost him the Presidential election. I thought he made the right decision...

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Tue May 14, 2019, 05:12 PM

May 2019

(I lived in NYC at the time). New York City ultimately worked with the government of the State of New York and a plan was arranged so no federal bailout was necessary.

Ford never actually said "drop dead" (see: https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/28/nyregion/28veto.html )

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