President Gerald Ford raised eyebrows in his clash with Jimmy Carter when he insisted there was "no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe".
His gaffe came on 6 October, in the second of three debates between the contenders in the 1976 presidential race.
President Ford lost the subsequent election, becoming the first President since Andrew Johnson never to have been elected by the people.
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