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This file from the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library holds press releases and statements that House Republican Leader Gerald R. Ford issued between January and April 1966. Most cover Vietnam policy, the war on poverty, inflation, foreign aid, the federal budget and changes in his press staff. An April 21, 1966 statement says the Air Force told Ford it would contract a university with no close Air Force ties to have scientists study unexplained UFO sightings and make the report public. According to Ford, his call for congressional hearings led to this study.
.,. -, ... Friday, March 18, 1966 -2- STATEMENT BY REP .. GERALD R. FORD, Unless there are overriding reasons for this••and I can't tee them at this time--1 believe the presidential policy is manifestly unfair to the network technicians, The White House maintains that security is involved and that using network engineers would take up ao.e of the President's time. For Deputy Presidential Press Secretary Robert H. Fleming to raise the issue of security implies that some of the network tech- nicians may be disloyal to the United States. I don't believe that for one minute. It's difficult to believe the security question is a real pro-lan. Certainly these men can be screened and given security clearance. Aa for the union technicians unnecessarily taking up the President's time, we have the word of William McAndrew, President of NBC news, that their own technicians "can be unobtruaive too." Surely these matters can be worked out to the satisfaction of the President while at the same time the livelihood of the men who work as network technicians is protected."
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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 55 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.