Ford UFO Files

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5TH DISTRICT RADIO tAPE--MAY 25, 1966
Americans must know for what they are fighting. They must feel that what
they are doing is worthwhile. ~tey moat belteue ehet the li;ea ei cae1w men
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Asia seems terribly far away. We are told we must play the same role there
that we did in Europe after World War II. We are told we must contain Communist
imperialism there or the free world will be gobbled up in bits and pieces until
our own security is in imminent danger.
This is a sad thing to think about. The Vietnam War is a sad war, as all
wars are aad.
I hope with all my heart that civil order can prevail in Vietnam, and that
constitutional government can become a reality there.
The Vietnam War must again become their war, not ~war.
I hope, too, thatall the black marketeering, the profiteering and the corruption
that are making the Vietnam War such a dirty mess can be wiped out and a semblance
of decency restored to the war effort.
An American newsman in Saigon recently charted that the Vietcong was getting
more of its supplies from the black market and other South Vietnam sources than
through the famous Ho Chi Mlnh Trail. To me that is tragic and almost incredible.
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the~. AGO our men in Vietna• desperately need your prayers on this Memorial Day,
1966. This is Jerry Ford, your congressman.
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