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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.
THOMAS JEFFERSON'S LEGACY (Note: The following script may provide material for a radio or TV report to your District during the week of Jefferson 1s birthday which falls on April 13). This is Congressman reporting to you from Washington. -------- As we observe the two-hundred and twenty-third anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth this year--on April 13th--l consider it strange that the present notional Admioistre~tfon in Washing- ton is making claim to the squire of lv'onticello as one of its own. For, it seems to me 1 there is something ironic in a situation where a man of Jefferson 1s political and economic beltefs should be considered one of the patron political saints of an Administration that has gone into debt with such carefree abandon. I wonder, for example 1 how comfortable Jefferson would have felt at one of today 1s Cabinet meetings. 1 Ftave an tdea that he V\Ould rlOve ooen dfstinctly at odd~ with the elite of the so-called Great Society. His speeches and writFngs are--to put it mildly--on indication that he wouldn 1t have been altogether hoppy with such expensive frills as a Vice-Presidential palace costing three quarters of a billion dollars. In a letter written in 17991 Jefferson saJd--quote-- 111 am for a government rigorously frugal and simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt; and not foro multiplication of officers and salaries merely to make partisans, and ·. -~for lnereasing,, by every devl~e, the public debt, on the principle of its being a public bl~t'Y,J 'I II That's the end of the quote--but let me repeat those lost words-.!.Mt for increasing the pub\ie debt on the princtple of its being a public blessing." Shades of the Great Society which is TOOied in debt md whose soil is fertilized with deficit spending I And again Jefferson said--and I quote-"1 place economy among the first and most Im- portant virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be faced. To preserve our indpen- denee, we must not let our r~ load us with perpetual debt. We must make our choice betWeen (more)
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