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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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• • -3- 5TH DISTRICT RADIO TAPE - MAY 18, 1966 The U. s. House of Representatives recently voted 192 to 188 to provide $20 million to finance the rent subsidy program during the new fiscal year beginning July 1. Some newsmen made much of the fact that six out of the 125 Republicans present voted for rent subsidies and pointed to this as more than the margin of victory. A more accurate version was given in other news accounts which pointed out that Democrats voted for the program, 186 to 69, and Republicans voted against it, 119 to 6. As a matter offact, four Democrats came forward and changed their votes to make victory possible for President Johnson on the rent subsidy issue. When it appeared initally that a tie vote had doomed the new program, four Democrats asked that their votes against rent subsidies be changed. This gave the Administration a 192 to 188 victory. With the record made straight, I'm content to let the American people judge who's right on the rent subsidy issue. This is your congressman, Jerry Ford, saying so-long for now. See you next week, same time, same station. #II
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