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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 - MAY 11 peace-loving Americans am hopeful. I am hopeful because I, like all of you, do not want to see the world turned into a burnt cinder by the horror of nuclear war. We all know that Red China has engaged in aggressive acts for 18 years. The war in Malaya, begun in 1948, was financed by Red China. Chinese Communist soldiers took part in many of its campaigans. Chinese troops poured into Korea and slaughtered American soldiers fighting in defense of Korean independence. Chinese Communists supplied the weapons and training that drove the French out of Indochina. And it is this country, with this history of aggression that--in my opinion -- we will soon be asked to recognize, to seat in the U.N. In spite of the fact that the U.N. is dedicated to do all it can to prevent aggression! The campaign to seat Red China in the U.N. was launched when Senator Fulbright, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, held public hearings on the question recently--and when Administration spokesmen like Vice President Humphrey suggested that American policy toward Mainland China might be one of "containment without necessarily isolation~ U.N. Ambassador Goldberg has admitted that the issue is being--and I quote--"intensively reviewed by the American government." Unquote. After Secretary of State Dean lusk's testimoney to Congress, a Washington newspaper headlined: "Rusk softens policy toward China." We were told once by some so-called Chinese experts that the Red Chinese weren't really Communists, they were agrarian reformers. But we know that Mao is as much a Communist as Stalin ever was. He is just as opposed to freedom (More)
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