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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.
CONGRESSMAN GERALD R. FORD HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER FOR RELEASE ON RECEIPT NEWS RELEASE STATEMENT BY HOUSE MINORITY LEADER. GERALD R. FORD, R-MICHIGAN Acting like the Air Force with flying saucer reports, Johnson Administration economists are trying to explain away the 0,5 of one per cent increase in the consumer price index for February. It makes no sense to try to make this bad news lesa bad. The realist will recognize the February rise in the consumer cost-of-living figures for what it is--the largest since June of last year, which was the same. Last month's consumer price jump also was the biggest for a February since 1951. If the monthly rise in the consumer price index continues at the February rate, it will result in a nearly six per cent jump in prices at retail for the year. It should be remembered in this connection that for the November- February period, the wholesale price rise was at a six per cent annual rate, This is the peril tn the February consumer price increase, coming as it does after a wholesale price reading which shows the steepest climb in wholesale prices for a February since the Korean War--0.7 of one per cent. The cons\Der price rise for February brings the consumer price index to 111.5. This means it coat $11.15 last month to buy what $10 bought in the 1957-59 perlo~which is used as a base for the index. Johnson·llumphrey Adminiatration economiets ere seeking to calm thf! public'e fears about inflation, so they cla~ that food prices already have begun to drop. Their for.ecaat of a food prlc·e decl:l.ne may prove no more trustworthy than President Johnson's faulty ff.guree oa January-February retail sales annouace4 at his press conference last week. All the American people have to go on are the governmentts monthly readings of wholesale and consumer prices. If, indeed, food prices do decline this month. there may well be increases in other items. This much we know--prices have been increasing and sharply. The Johnson-Humphrey Administration, because it continuously promotes more federal spending, is the prime cause of spiralling costs for every family.
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.