Ford UFO Files

SCRIPT FOR FIFTH DISTRICT RADIO STATIONS, FOR TAPING MAY 11, 1966.
My frtends of the Fifth Congressional District, this is your congressman,
Jerry Ford, speaking to you from the nation's capital.
This week we read some significant headlines. One announced to the world
that Red China had conducted its third atomic bomb test. Another let everyone
know that the Johnson-Humphrey Administration is enga&ed in a reappraisal of
United States policy toward Red China.
These two headlines are fraught with great meaning.
In both cases, we know but little of what is happening. We don't really
know how much progress Red China is making in striving for nuclear capability.
We don't really know what new policy line may result from the Administration's
meditations on what its official attitude toward Red China should be.
But change is in the wind. As the atom cloud from Red China's nuclear
explosions mushrooms skyward, we know that Red China is moving closer to the
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day--perhaps still a decade away--when she will be capable of erasing mo}t of
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this continent from t~ face~o~e earth. . - --~
the views of the American people on Red China are chansiag, too. Oh, no,
the people do not for a minute believe that the Red Chinese have suddenly become
peaee-loving and that we should welcome them with open arms into the United
Nations or accord them diplomatic recognition.
But at the same time, the American people wish desperately that i~ would
be possible to teach peace to this gigantic Communist nation.
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Is it possible to achieve such a miracle? Perhaps that is the only ~ ,\
that can be used to describe such a development, and yet I along with
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