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Ford Broadcasts, 1965-1966: 12237637

· 88 pages · text by OCR

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.

  • p. 51 …30,000 to 40,000 citizens to cooperate. You can help by signing up as a…
  • p. 55 …one out of five of the Democrats cooperated. Since Democrats in the Congress outnumber the Republicans…
  • p. 71 …In this case, of course, the friendship we have with the British government and the cooperation…
  • p. 85 …take is more friendly relations, more economic cooperation, cultural, social and so on, and it is…
UFO STATEMENT

I think the American people would feel better if there was a full-blown investigation of these mysterious flying objects, which some persons honestly believe they have seen.

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Cases discussed

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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 88 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.