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This file from the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, digitized by the Internet Archive, holds Congressman Gerald R. Ford's Fifth District weekly radio scripts from January to June 1966, plus several National Republican Congressional Committee scripts. They deal with President Johnson's budget, inflation, four-year House terms, electoral college reform, foreign aid, the Vietnam War, rent subsidies and Memorial Day. The extracted text does not discuss UFOs.
.. J NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE • 312 CONGRESSIONAL HOTEL • WASHINGTON 3. D. C. • LINCOLN 4-3010 Script t,lo. 8 March 7, 1966 Without question, t e war in Vietnam concerns--and is of concern--to every American .. I doubt if there is a family in the country today that isn 1t discussing, with deep concern, our in- volvement there. The questions they are asking themselves are these: Are we really fighting to win over there? Why are members of the President's own party so deeply divided over his Vietnam policies? And why is our own government telling us one thing one day and something else the next? The country is bewildered and alarmed by the contradictions and confusions that seem to have become an integral part of the Vietnamese war. I do not think I am exaggerating when I soy that it has reached the point where every official Administration statement on the war is re- garded with suspicion. Let me remind you of some of these "official statements. 11 In the Spring of 1963, Secretory of Defense McNamara, returning from o visit to South Vietnam, said--quote-"Every quantatfve measurement that we have shows that we are winning the war. 11 In his 1963 State of the Union message, President Kennedy soid--quote--"The spear- point of aggression has been blunted in South Vietnam. 11 In October of 1963, Secretory McNamara said that a thousand of the 16,000 American troops then in South Vietnam would be brought home by the end of that year and the maior part vf the military iob wou!d be finished by 1965 .. How wron3 can these men be? And they are the man resp,nsible for conducting the war. Finished by 1965? By Christmas of 1965 more than 200,000 American soldiers were fighting in the swamps, rice-paddN"es and jungles of South Vietr.am" And tc moka the confusion w"rse, a Democratk Senator, who !s c; fo rmer~tnember of President Johnson's own Cabinet, has suggested that we give the Communists some power andre~ sponsibility in a coalition government in South Vietnam. What's more, an advisor to th~ Presideft'J, (more)
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