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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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deserves corresponding care and honesty in the Federal spending of those same taxes. For instance,
I cion•t believe in this time of financial crftfs we should build a palace costing more than three
quarters of a million dollars to house the Vice President~
Another reason I am against a tax increase ts that it will give the President more rroney
to spend. If we are to iudge by his spending habits to date 1 it will be spent with the usual reck-
less abandon. I cannot believe that the additional funds will be used simply to make ends meet.
To the contrary. The President, will dream up, I am sure, some new boondoggle or other--which
will add to the present inflationary trend, not take away from tt.
In closing, I would ltke to return to the somewhat time-worn phrase "guns and butter.~·
If it were only a butter bill that the administration wanted the taxpayer to foot, I might be per-
$Uaded to go along. But I am afraid Fecleral spending has long passed the 11butter 11 stage. It has
reached the point where we must make a choice between cannons and caviar.
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This is Congressman reportlng from Washington.
{A copy of this script Is available on Teleprompter ln the House TV Studio)
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