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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.
“Burbank”1 page
CONGRESSMAN GERALD R. FORD HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER FOR RELEASE MONDAY P. M., APRIL 11, 1966 NEWS RELEASE WASHINGTON--House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford, Mich., will address the Republican faithful at appreciation dinners for two GOP members of the House in appearances April 15-16 in California. Ford will speak the evening of April 15 at Santa Rosa on behalf of Rep.Don H. Clausen. The Clausen dinner is sponsored by the First District Republican Committee. The House GOP leader will be the principal speaker April 16 at a Lincoln- Day-in-April dinner at Burbank honoring Rep. Ed Reinecke of California's 27th congressional district. Prior to the Clausen dinner, Ford will speak to the Republican Associates of San Diego County at San Diego. On his swing into Santa Roaa, Ford will arrive at 4:40 p.m. at San Francisco International Airport, where a press conference is scheduled. He will spend the night of April 15 at San Francisco and will have another press conference at 10:30 a.m. April 16 at the Hilton Inn before departing for Burbank. Ford will fly from San Francisco to Los Angeles, where he is due at 3:30p.m. There he will be greeted by a Burbank civic committee. Burbank city officials will be having their own annual dinner-dance that evening and so will be unable to attend the Ford-Reinecke dinner. Ford will meet the press at Burbank at 5:30 p.m. and later mingle with guests at a social hour preceding the dinner for Reinecke. Ford has made more than 200 speeches throughout the country since becoming House Republican leader January 4, 1965. Congressman from Michigan's Fifth District, he is serving his 18th year in the House. During the 88th Congress, he was Chairman of the House Republican Conference. Before becoming Minority Leader, he was ranking Republican on the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. Clausen, of Crescent City, was elected to Congress January 23, 1963, to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Democratic Rep. Clem Miller. He was reelected to the 89th Congress. Reinecke is a first-termer who was named whip of the California Republican delegation January 6, 1965.
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.