President Ford’s personal verbal rebuke of Gen. George S. Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for his anti-Semitic and anti-Israel statement and the President’s statement to a press conference Thursday night in Phoenix, Arizona, that he will not dismiss Brown for his “one mistake” closes the episode as far as Ford is concerned, the White House has announced.
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