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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.
“Cooper”2 pages
CONGRESSMAN GERALD R. FORD HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER NEWS RELEASE For release February 9, 1966 WASHINGTON--- President Johnson's whopping $3.4 billion foreign aid request should be given a "genuine, effective,. and deep'' Congressional surgical treatment, House Republican Leader Gerald R. Ford said today• In urging the use of an economic scalpel on the President's request, Ford said "substantial reductions in expenditures can be made without material~ weakening any good which may be accomplished•" Although critical of the Administration's foreign aid request,. Ford said he agreed with the President's stated purpose "to carry forward the best of what we are now doing in the less ...developed world, and to cut out the worst.," Ford addedJ "Our mutual security program, with some exceptions, has served a useful purpose and I have supported its basic principles,." The Fifth District Representative from Michigan said that the President's financial plan "can and should be cut considerably by the Congress, especially in view of our w~ expenditures and Mr. Johnson's insistence on increasing non-defense spending." The President's stress in his foreign aid message that 11we must concentrate on countries not hostile to us which give solid evidence that they are determined to help themselves" was applauded by Ford. "The burden of proof on cooperation and constructive results must rest with the recipient country," Ford said. The President was criticized by Ford for failing to insist that "our aid in tax dollars go only to those nations which are helpful to us in the Vietnamese War." Ford said he "cannot justify nor support any assistance to those nations which in any way help the North Vietnamese aggressors 0 11 # # # # #
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.