Documents / Official release
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.
“Hamilton”1 page
1st DISTRICT REPUBLICAN PARTY House Mtnerity Freel D. Hartley, Chairman P.O. Box 629 KENOSHA, WISCONSIN * FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ~~1 Leader• Gerald R. Per~Will tour the First co~ressional District of Wisconsin April 22 and 23 with Henry c. §chadeberg, Repbblican 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 inc . Kenosha~(expected audience ef 1600 Schadeberg supporters. Saturday, April 23, Ford will address a Walworth County breaKfast meeting at the Green Shutters Restaurant in Whitewater at 8:30AM, and a luncheon rally at the Aero Park hall in Janesville at 12:30 PM . /"C ~1 ~ ~ ~If~ ':ord,/engressman from the Fifth District ef Michisan)'&>'iijpj&i)( c::::- · ~ongres~ 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 he was tia &Sf ~ Schadeberg is campaigning to return to Congress from the First District of Wisconsin. From 1961 to 1964 he represented the area compoaedgof Racine, Kenosha, Walworth, and Rock counties in the 87th and 88th Congresses. A resident ef Burlington, Schadeberg was minister at ~ Plymouth Congregational Church before his election to Congress. ****
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.