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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 NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE APRIL 7, 1966 House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford, R-Mich., will tour the First Congressional District of Wisconsin April 22 and 23 with Henry C. &:hadeberg, Republican candidate for Congress. Ford will speak at a campaign kick-off dinner for Schadeberg Friday evening, April 22, at the new Carthage College Field House in Kenosha before an expected audience of 1,600 Schadeberg supporters. Saturday, April 23, Ford will address a Walworth County breakfast meeting at the Green Shutters Restaurant in Whitewater at 8:30 A. M. and a luncheon rally at the Aero Park hall in Janesville at 12:30 P. M. Ford, congressman from the Fifth District of Michigan, is in his 18th year in Congress. He was elected Minority Leader of the House of Representatives at the opening of the 89th Congress on January 4, 1965. During the 88th Congress (1963-64) he was Chairman of the Republican Conference of the House. Before becoming Minority Leader, Ford served on the committee on Appropriation~ where he was senior Republican on the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. Schadeberg is campaigning to return to Congress from the First District of Wisconsin. From 1961 to 1964 he represented the area composed of Racine, Kenosha, Walworth, and Rock counties in the 87th and 88th Congresses. A resident of Burlington, Schadeberg was minister at the Plymouth Congregational Church before his election to Congress. # # 41
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.