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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.
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CONGRESSMAN GERALD R. FORD HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER NEWS RELEASE FOR RELEASE UPON RECEIPT APRIL 7, 1966 STATEMENT BY HOUSE MINORITY LEADER GERALD R. FORD, R-MICH. I urge this Congress to change its rubber-stamping, loose-speudi~g ways when it returns from Easter Recess. The 89th Congress in this session has continued to be a rubber stamp for the White House. On critical votes most Democrats have done whatever President Johnson told them to do. They don't seem to have minds of their own. This Congress in the first three months of this year has resumed the wild spending spree it embarked on in 1965. This has caused painful inflation, increases in automobile and telephone excise taxes, and now the strong possibility of an income tax increase. The way the Johnson Administration and the tcp-heavy Democratic majorities in Congress are throwing the people's money around, one would almost think there was no war going on in Vietnam. It's acting like a business-as-usual Congress, not a war Congress. It's claimed this is one of the hardest working of all Congresses. I say the hardest work is being done in certain major committees by those Democrats intent on inflating already bloated Administration spending requests. It's claimed this has been one of the most productive Congresses. I say this Congress has moved at a rather slow pace, and the product is nothing to be proud of. Apart from quick action on emergency money requests for the multi-billion-dollar Vietnam war, the thing that stands out is Mr. Johnson's $6 billion tax bill. It's said this Congress is living up to the reputation it established in the first session. That's true. It is living up to a reputation for big spending and total disregard of the taxpayer's wishes.
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.