Documents / Official release
This Gerald R. Ford Library folder of Ford Congressional Papers holds material from Ford's broadcasts in 1965 and 1966. It contains correspondence with WJR station manager James H. Quello and drafts of Ford's June 1965 "Your Government" radio report on congressional imbalance, Vietnam and Cuba, along with budget remarks. It also includes Ford's March 25, 1966 on-air statement calling for a congressional investigation of UFO sightings near Ann Arbor, Michigan, a Great Society documentary script and a Meet the Press transcript with Indira Gandhi.
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1-minute radio tape for Congressional Committee via phone June 29,1965 The swift sword for freedom must strike mightier blows now---from the air and from the sea in the Viet Nam war. They must be struck quickly. They must be unleashed to prevent a costly and possibly never-ending land war in the steaming jungles and swamps of that southeast Asian country. Republicans are against a massive ground war in Viet Nam. We know the pitfalls of being over-committed in large-scale jungle warfare... fighting under the rules of the enemy. Experience and logic prove there is a better way to impress the enemy with our power... it should be forcefully demonstrated in the air with attacks on significant military targets... and on the sea with a naval quarantine to shut off the flow of mortal that fattens the enemy's war arsenal. Power-hungry Communist leaders will dodge the negotiation table until they are convinced by stepped-up air attacks and a naval quarantine that the United States will stay in Viet Nam until peace with both honor and meaning is achieved. BERALD R. FORD LIBRARY
Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 88 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.