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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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NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE • 312 CONGRESSIONAL HOTEL • WASHINGTON 3, D. C. • LINCOLN 4-3010 Script No. 36 September 19, 1966 AFTER NOVEMBER 8th-- WHAT? What is going to happen after November 8th? What post-election pfans for the country does the Administration have? Are we getting the dynamic leadership that the present confused state of the world calls for? How big wi II the Vietnam war get? Can inflation be stopped? These ere lome of the questfons that the American voter must answer before the morning of November 8 dawns. The polls show that the American people are confused, uncertain and concerned. They don•t know where they are being taken by their own government. They are bewildered by the seemingly unbridgeable gap that lies between the Administration•s promises and the Administra- tion1s performances. Americans have reached the state of mind where they can no longer condone the Ad- ministrotion 1s long list of failures by saying, 11They mean well. 11 iV\oreover 1 the members of the Administration 1s party seeking office will be called to account on those issues come November 8th. The Vietnam war, of course 1 is an overriding issue. Our forces have been doubled and doubled again until they are now well over the three hundred thousand mark--despite earlier Administration efforts to conceal the extent of our involvement. Now the country is very naturally apprehensive as to what further acceleration lies ahead. The bombing of North Viet- nom has been accelerated. The Administration must have foreseen that this would be necessary --but said nothing, wasting valuable time before it took this necessary step. In our domestic affairs, there has been the same bewildering uncertainty. The Ad- ministration laid out a wonderful blueprint of the years ahead. It can be summed up by the phrase "more of everything for everybody-- with lower taxes and a balanced budget." And it promised there would be no inflation, no rise in living costs, no waste and wild spending of the darkness to cut his electric bill. As a result, the country relaxed and in 1964 voted LBJ in by a landslide .. .-:·more-
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