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Gerald Ford's son sees legacy of his father's mission to airlift children from Vietnam

In April 1975, during the chaotic final days of the Vietnam War, there were some 3,000 babies in the country that had been fathered by U.S. servicemen. President Gerald Ford moved urgently, and Operation Babylift was born, flying more than 2,500 of those children to the United States. Jim Axelrod reports.
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