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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.
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.. . .... Fifth District Radio Talk (tor taping WEmESDAY 1 JANUARY 261 1966) • • ~ .......... • •- "' '"' n - . -"' •. This is your Congressman Jerry Ford reporting to you from Washington tor ' M seal ez F=xaB811bj D iaa:its~aaa&s the first time by radio since the second session of the 89th Congress opened. Thanks to the splendid cooperation of GpaQ1 aapids radio ~~~""~ ~stations in broadcasting these messages as a public service, I can keep 4 you informed on major happenings in the Congress. A most important topic of conversation is the tll2.8 billion-dollar-budget President Johnson sent to the Congress the past week9 The financial document should receive careful and critical scrutiny by the :At i • 0 i I 6 ft" Appropriations Committees of the House and Senate •• • and by the entire Congress. ~..- Th~ complicated budget sought by the President calls for a sharp increase in military spending, a substantial expansion ot tederallelfare programs, and a $6.2 billion tax plan to help p~ the cost. The President expressed hope that the record budget will produce sharp $£~ domestic growth without inflation. He pledged to ~ what he called "appropriate" fiscal measures---presumably higher taxes and a hold-Kawn ot domestic spending- 1t as he said "unforeseen inflationary pressures develop."
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