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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.
-2- RADIO TAPE - APRIL b, 1966 We Republicans were happy to hear this.. Mr. Johnson was finally admitting that what we have been urging tor months is right--the tederal government should cut spending. Let's carry this thing a step turther. If the Administration can cut spending $1 billion during the last three months of this fiscal year, why can't non-military federal spending be reduced by $4 billion for the full 12 months of the next fiscal year? But the talkative Mr. Johnson is not talking about this. This is simple arithmetic, and it's what I've been urging for months. Let's cut non-military federal spending by $4 billion or more in fiscal 1967 and thus avoid the increase in income taxes that Mr. Johnson keeps talking about. Mr. Johnson has been talking about the prospect of an income tax increase so much you'd think he was paving the way for it--you know, getting you accustomed to the idea so it won't shock you so much when it comes. I feel sure of this much--an income tax increase will come if the Johnson- t-=: Humphrey Administration and Democrats in Congress persist in their traditional role of big spenders. Last week marked the first real test in the House on the spending issue. We Republicans tried to knock the potentially costly Rent Supplements and Teacher Corps programs out of a bill providing $2.5 billion more for the Johnson-Humphrey Administration to spend by July 1 of this year. The initial amounts recommended for these programs by the House Appropriations Committee were small by Washington standards--$12 million to start the Rent (MORE)
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