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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. 4 …I 'll never forget it. In fact, I may still carry a few lumps—and some…
  • p. 11 …I'll never forget it. In fact, I may still carry a few lumps---and some…
  • p. 18 …They must be unleashed to prevent a costly and possibly never-ending land war in the…
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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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.